dive
verb (used without object)
to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
were diving
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past progressiveof dive.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, executives at Home Depot on Tuesday said that consumers were diving into smaller home-repair projects.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He and wife Linda were diving off McAbee Beach in Monterey County in late December when, near the surface, he spotted the “undulating thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
There were diving golds as Desharne Bent-Ashmeil and Amy Rollinson triumphed in the women's synchronised 3m springboard and Ross Haslam won the men's 1m springboard.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
But I also found that a lot of really seasoned, experienced home bakers were diving into that chapter too.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022
By the time she got to Nin’s back door, Sefia was lost and half-gone with grief, spitting, blind, blundering, falling into Nin’s thick cushiony arms as if she were diving off a cliff.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
