Example Sentences
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Dived is the traditional past tense for what Esther Williams did off a diving board, though authorities now accept dove in all but formal writing.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Saying this, he shook his locks, and Dived beneath the water's surface; And the foaming surging waves then Closed the whirlpool where he vanished.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
Fresh heart-sobs shook her knitted hands Beneath a tiny suckling, As one by one of the doleful bands Dived like a fairy duckling.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
A whale of great porosity And small specific gravity, Dived down with much velocity Beneath the sea's concavity.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
