Sentence examples for dived under a table from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shubert, a 16-year-old pitcher on the baseball team, dived under a table, and flipped it onto its side for cover.

Once, at a backyard barbecue, one grandson dived under a table as a plane flew overhead — perhaps a reaction ingrained from bombings.

My wife was at home, where she had dived under a table shouting out my son's name until the shaking stopped.

DAVID O. CAMPBELL Tailgating and Family Time While rushing Delta Kappa Epsilon at Rutgers University in the late 1960's, David O. Campbell dived under a table to escape a food fight at lunch.

What came out of Madonna's mouth was kind of like singing, except that watching her Lucite cane probably made you forget about the singing, and then the mass marriage probably distracted you from Macklemore's velvet doo-wop outfit, and then you dove under a table.

Grabbing his mother, he dove under a table as their windows blew in.

On another occasion Barclay fired a fake pistol, and one of the guests dove under a table for cover, assuming the gun was real.

Several things happened almost simultaneously: the men playing dominoes dived under the table; the first man handed Garcia a plastic bag and told her to fill it with cash; and Potter yelled, "I'm a police officer!" Potter knocked the second man to the floor, and made a grab for his gun.

Moriarity dived under the table.

My mom says this all the time: 'The life you save might be your own.' " Cruz, who heard gunshots on several previous occasions while growing up in Paterson, N.J., simply shook his head when asked about the experience of partying one minute and diving under a table the next.

The Ortegas and three of their daughters, including the gunman's ex-wife, dived under the dining table for cover.