diving board
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of diving board
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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For him, finding the diving board at an early age was salvation.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
Many recall the photograph of her wearing it on a diving board, which was re-created at the end of Episode 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
This felt, he reported, “like hanging horizontally on belts, as if in a suspended state,” a circumstance passingly familiar to anyone who has been on a roller coaster or jumped off a diving board.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
The cover of SZA’s latest album, “SOS,” finds the singer balanced on the end of a diving board, gazing into an endless blue sea.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
He dives off the diving board, enter the water effortlessly, and creates very little splashing.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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