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
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
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
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
