Sentence examples for dives like a from inspiring English sources

The craggy frieze of rock-faced blocks of brownstone above the first floor rolls and dives like a wind-tossed ocean.

The use of like as a conjunction ("Forsythe Spurlock dives like a politician promises -- with abandon") is out of bounds here and in many other places.

Instead of gentle transitions -- easing from overcoat to jacket to shirtsleeves -- the temperature swoops and dives like a phoebe feeding on the wing.

The piano runs on as Ms. Ash in the third and best duet dives like a projectile into Mr. Marcovici's arms, and he manipulates her leg before she rises into a stag lift on his shoulder.

48 min Al Hasan Al Yami dives like a diva to win a free-kick half way between the corner flag and the penalty area, but Al Khathran's attempt to squeeze it into the top corner from a narrow angle was never going to defy the geometry.

Indeed, as Skip Engblom, co-owner of the surf shop that sponsored the Z-Boys, explains in Peralta's documentary, their neighbourhood was actually a "seaside slum", characterised by boarded-up storefronts, ratty dives like a transvestite bar called The Pink Elephant and an underground coke-snorting emporium known as the Mirror-Go-Round.

He took to diving like a fish to water.

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

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

There was one moment where he was at full stretch, diving like a goalkeeper, to cling on to a James O'Connor kick, that summed up his performance.

I spend half the year in Asia diving like a madman among sharks and munters wearing just my swim pants and a snorkel or some light diving apparatus.