Sentence examples for dived like from inspiring English sources

Blackburn dived like a third baseman to short-hop the rebound.

We removed our shirts and dived like needles into the gold-painted first-class pool with barely a splash.

Above, the gannets wheeled and dived like a giant mobile of white and black against a clear blue sky.

Blue-footed boobies flew within feet of the dinghies, while pelicans skimmed heads as they dived like combat aircraft into shallow water in search of fish.

Further on up the trail, Seid, the head porter, dived like a goalkeeper into the waist-high spleenwort and emerged cradling an extremely cute brown baby goat.

"To have dived like that and finished sixth and qualified for the final is quite comforting really," said Daley, before offering some sense of their recent training schedule.

"I'm starting to dive like the old me again.

Yet watching them dive like jet-propelled missiles into the water, I could see why fish would not share the joke.

These two allow Michael to ascribe some of his most eloquent thoughts to a collective "we," who "dove like needles" into a pool and roamed "like freed mercury" during the voyage.

A snow-dusted field became a snow-buried one by the second half, and the players slipped and slid and dove like kids playing a schoolyard pickup game on a snow day.

I was repairing a section of dyke (as we in Orkney call drystone walls), regularly stopping to watch gannets dive like arrows into the Atlantic, smoke roll-ups and glance at my phone.