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Definition of swan dive in English: swan divenoun A dive performed with one's arms outspread until close to the water. Example sentencesExamples - If no one is looking, do a couple of swan dives and you might just, as London hoped, start feeling pretty darn happy.
- The plane begins it's swan dive, and everyone says their goodbyes.
- Why don't you show me this bridge where swan dives are preformed.
- A few minutes later, Jaaru cannonballed into the waves not far from them, while Elisa landed in an oddly elegant swan dive.
- I did a backward swan dive, because I didn't want to see anything, at least not all the way down.
- His swan dive at the end underlined his comeback and his confidence in the shoulder.
- True, Vijay's win at last week's Sony Open in Hawaii was opportunistic, largely the product of Shigeki Maruyama's inexplicable Sunday swan dive.
- The ball then took a graceful swan dive into the hole to give Joe a hole-in-one and the Classroom Caners a well-earned eagle.
- She ran straight down the deck between the cats and executed a perfect swan dive off the bow, down and out of sight.
- It looked like The Tazmanian Devil had touched down in the salad greens and then took a swan dive into the mushroom sauce.
- To do the Mountain Pose with Prayer Hands, inhale as you reverse your swan dive, lifting your hands all the way up over your head.
- Then, she ran forward and gracefully launched herself into a swan dive.
- She felt as if she just took a seven story swan dive out of a window and the cut on her forehead pulsed with white hot pain.
- Chessa did a perfect swan dive off the diving board into rippling water below her.
- In Tom's World, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose.
- I feel like a crazed kid at a concert who has, in a moment of sheer insanity, jumped off the stage in a grand, sweeping swan dive.
- They both dived over the railing in magnificent, parabolic swan dives befitting Olympic champion divers.
- Phoebe made a beeline for Jess's bedroom, doing a low swan dive onto the bed.
- In his haste, he bumped the table and while the bottle of Roederer avoided a swan dive from that height, it fell over.
- His board flew from underneath him, causing a great swan dive onto the table right in front of LeeAnne.
verb [no object]swan-divePerform a swan dive. Example sentencesExamples - In the film Mermaid, she's regally rising from an spurting tower of spray, swan-diving through multicolored fogs, and suggestively slithering into a giant clamshell in a huge fish tank.
- Mary had swan-dived right in, her body cutting the water sharply.
- It's greatest effect was on the acquaintance who was there to watch over and make sure I didn't swan-dive into the fire.
- We were all scared when those planes swan-dived into the towers.
- Were it within Blair's gift to serve up the fall of western civilisation on a plate, I might now be debating which bridge I'd prefer to swan-dive off, Blackfriars or Hammersmith.
- They are easy to find at their shows because they are the throng moshing and swan-diving down the front.
- You want me to run until I get to a cliff, swan dive off that cliff and then swim a mile to a boat then fly to some far off island?
- I see him swan-diving from the rail of the Staten Island Ferry late Saturday night when he disappeared, rounding Sandy Hook by dawn, and turning south for Cape Horn.
- Of course, she then snorts some coke and swan dives off a 20th floor balcony, but then this isn't a porn movie.
- And then, of course, she cuts his rope and he barely escapes being crushed but swan dives into a nearby river.
- Such ‘everyman-outsiders’ are the perfect candidates for Murakami's headlong swan-dives into the gaps between the expected and the possible.
- Leonard swan-dives into the lake, only to find it's freezing cold.
- You stand on the top, take a photograph of Manhattan, spread out below you, then swan-dive into midair.
- For the Mets and their unfortunate loyalists, the 2003 season has swan-dived into a yearlong anniversary celebration of the 1993 team.
Definition of swan dive in US English: swan divenounˈswän ˌdīvˈswɑn ˌdaɪv A dive performed with one's arms outspread until close to the water. Example sentencesExamples - She ran straight down the deck between the cats and executed a perfect swan dive off the bow, down and out of sight.
- The ball then took a graceful swan dive into the hole to give Joe a hole-in-one and the Classroom Caners a well-earned eagle.
- In his haste, he bumped the table and while the bottle of Roederer avoided a swan dive from that height, it fell over.
- Phoebe made a beeline for Jess's bedroom, doing a low swan dive onto the bed.
- To do the Mountain Pose with Prayer Hands, inhale as you reverse your swan dive, lifting your hands all the way up over your head.
- A few minutes later, Jaaru cannonballed into the waves not far from them, while Elisa landed in an oddly elegant swan dive.
- The plane begins it's swan dive, and everyone says their goodbyes.
- True, Vijay's win at last week's Sony Open in Hawaii was opportunistic, largely the product of Shigeki Maruyama's inexplicable Sunday swan dive.
- I feel like a crazed kid at a concert who has, in a moment of sheer insanity, jumped off the stage in a grand, sweeping swan dive.
- I did a backward swan dive, because I didn't want to see anything, at least not all the way down.
- They both dived over the railing in magnificent, parabolic swan dives befitting Olympic champion divers.
- His board flew from underneath him, causing a great swan dive onto the table right in front of LeeAnne.
- In Tom's World, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose.
- Why don't you show me this bridge where swan dives are preformed.
- It looked like The Tazmanian Devil had touched down in the salad greens and then took a swan dive into the mushroom sauce.
- Chessa did a perfect swan dive off the diving board into rippling water below her.
- If no one is looking, do a couple of swan dives and you might just, as London hoped, start feeling pretty darn happy.
- His swan dive at the end underlined his comeback and his confidence in the shoulder.
- She felt as if she just took a seven story swan dive out of a window and the cut on her forehead pulsed with white hot pain.
- Then, she ran forward and gracefully launched herself into a swan dive.
verbˈswän ˌdīvˈswɑn ˌdaɪv [no object]swan-divePerform a swan drive. Example sentencesExamples - Were it within Blair's gift to serve up the fall of western civilisation on a plate, I might now be debating which bridge I'd prefer to swan-dive off, Blackfriars or Hammersmith.
- Of course, she then snorts some coke and swan dives off a 20th floor balcony, but then this isn't a porn movie.
- I see him swan-diving from the rail of the Staten Island Ferry late Saturday night when he disappeared, rounding Sandy Hook by dawn, and turning south for Cape Horn.
- You want me to run until I get to a cliff, swan dive off that cliff and then swim a mile to a boat then fly to some far off island?
- For the Mets and their unfortunate loyalists, the 2003 season has swan-dived into a yearlong anniversary celebration of the 1993 team.
- Leonard swan-dives into the lake, only to find it's freezing cold.
- Such ‘everyman-outsiders’ are the perfect candidates for Murakami's headlong swan-dives into the gaps between the expected and the possible.
- They are easy to find at their shows because they are the throng moshing and swan-diving down the front.
- Mary had swan-dived right in, her body cutting the water sharply.
- You stand on the top, take a photograph of Manhattan, spread out below you, then swan-dive into midair.
- We were all scared when those planes swan-dived into the towers.
- In the film Mermaid, she's regally rising from an spurting tower of spray, swan-diving through multicolored fogs, and suggestively slithering into a giant clamshell in a huge fish tank.
- It's greatest effect was on the acquaintance who was there to watch over and make sure I didn't swan-dive into the fire.
- And then, of course, she cuts his rope and he barely escapes being crushed but swan dives into a nearby river.
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