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Example sentences for "dived"

Lexicographically close words:
divalent; divan; divans; divarsion; dive; divel; divell; divels; diver; diverce
  1. Coco had spied the doll as it fell, and, true to his early training, dived after it as a matter of course, and came up with the doll in his bill.

  2. Dolly dived after her, only to be met by Kitty coming up to the surface again, and frantically reaching out, as drowning persons do, for something to hold by.

  3. And, as luck would have it, just then there came hissing and foaming down upon us a particularly heavy sea, into which the frigate dived until she was all a-smother for'ard.

  4. Then Audouin dived down that abode of artists, with Gwen chatting away to him gaily, and the colonel stalking beside them in solemn silence, till they reached Maragliano's studio.

  5. Shepard dived suddenly for him, intending to repeat his own trick, but the youth was like a fish in the water, and he darted to the right.

  6. Harry, as he dived forward like a flash, seized Shepard by the ankles and headed for the bottom of the river with him.

  7. He twisted aside, leaped over the stumbling half and dived for the runner.

  8. Steve and Harry went in from the spring-board at the deeper end of the pool, while Tom and Roy dived from the floor.

  9. Presently the group of older fellows, having grown tired of guying the "kids," dived into the water.

  10. Then the goddess gave him the veil, and dived again into the deep as a sea-gull diveth, and the waves closed over her.

  11. Thereupon she dived beneath the sea, and I betook me to the ships; but I was sorely troubled in heart.

  12. Then he dived through the holes he had made in the ice and caught the fish swimming beneath.

  13. But the ground hog reached his hole and dived in.

  14. She dashed across the room to the telephone booth and dived into the smoke-choked, dim little place, for she did not bother to snap on the swinging light.

  15. She dived into a phone booth to inform Mother importantly that Mr. Nixon was sending her out.

  16. Doctor said it never caught fish at all, and never dived down into the water.

  17. Roly, with great glee, and dived head-first out of the tent to escape a flying shoe.

  18. They kept quite near each other, and splashed or dived unconscious of danger.

  19. Then--it was quite time for us to go, and we dived overboard.

  20. Wonder if she's dived and avoided the cordon.

  21. He dived like a flash, and the oar struck harmlessly on the water.

  22. Rattleton dived into the bushes again with a whoop, closely followed by Merriwell, who saw in a few moments that Harry was right.

  23. He gave another squawk and dived for the nearest tree.

  24. He dived from the outside and came under the door, which is closed.

  25. Once or twice I saw a ripple where he approached the surface, just put his head out to reconnoitre, and instantly dived again.

  26. But after an hour he seemed as fresh as ever, dived as willingly and swam yet further than at first.

  27. He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.

  28. Only a rare zoophyte," said he at last, lifting his dripping visage, and gasping for breath; and then he dived again.

  29. She dived into the traffic; but, just as she reached the pavement on the other side, felt her dress plucked and saw Fiorsen just behind her.

  30. The girl shook her head, and, with a sudden movement, slipped her arm out of this madman's and dived away like a swallow through the pavement traffic.

  31. On those other occasions when he had been followed by the police, he had raced them toward the river front and had dived boldly in from the wharf, leaving them staring blankly and in some alarm as to his safety.

  32. Sanford suddenly peeled off his metal-soled slippers, put them in his pocket, and dived casually into a four-foot metal tube.

  33. Then he literally dived back to his acceleration chair and strapped in in feverish haste.

  34. This time the rockets arched up above the Platform's orbit and dived on the satellite from above.

  35. He dived straight down, and then shot through the water like a streak.

  36. Close by the wall was a circular stone tower, partly in ruins, and into this Canaris dived eagerly.

  37. They sprang into the air, they dived beneath the surface, they threw their heavy bodies against each other, they tore each other with teeth and claws, and the water was covered with bloody foam.

  38. He dived under the breach unhesitatingly and, stooping, lifted the line as near to its former level as possible, holding the entire burden upon his naked pate.

  39. Standing directly beneath the cataract, most of it had dived fairly into his inviting waistband, following down the lines of least resistance into his boot-legs and boiling out at the knees.

  40. Hurry up, man,” he yelled, as the lawyer dived frantically about his office in a rabbit-like hunt for items.

  41. Her dull-gold hair was combed low over the ears, and her smile showed rows of sparkling teeth before it dived into twin dimples.

  42. As he dived down and came up again the drops flashed from his head and the fringe of beard, but he never needed to wipe his face or eyes at all.

  43. The sailor dived into his pocket again and pulled out a pair of scissors, which he placed beside the compass on the palm of his big hand.

  44. Just as he was looking a hand reached over her shoulder, there was a jerk, and a sudden cry from the child, then a boy dived into the crowd, and at the same moment George dashed after him.

  45. George as he dived through the crowd; but he slipped through them and was soon in the roadway.

  46. Then he dived fur some loose tobacco, and begun to roll one.

  47. Then his face cleared, and he dived into a vest pocket.

  48. We enjoyed the luxury of running about the island like the savages on Robinson Crusoe's island, then dived into deep water, swam around for a time and landed to dry and warm ourselves at a fire we had made for that purpose.

  49. Time after time we dived off, and swam around till tired, and then came ashore to dry ourselves at the fire.

  50. The animal increased his speed, and reaching the forest border, dived into the dense mass of broad-leaved grass which formed its frontage.

  51. Leaving our friends, Jose and I took our guns and dived into the woods in search of the monkeys.

  52. My first shot did not take effect; the animal dived into the water and did not reappear.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.