were diving
- past progressive of dive.
Example Sentences
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Shares of Honeywell International were diving in early Thursday trading after the aerospace and defense company missed first-quarter sales expectations, as the Middle East conflict led to a slowdown in activity.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 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
Mark Royer, a shark biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was inspired to investigate the scalloped hammerhead’s secret heating technique after noticing how deep they were diving during a different research project.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
It lay undisturbed for more than 80 years until the steamer was found by the Girvan Sub-Aqua Club divers, who were diving on an unknown obstruction which had entangled a fisherman's nets.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
