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单词 high diver
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Definition of high diver in English:

high diver

noun
  • A person who dives into water from a high platform as a sport (officially from a height of 20 metres for women and 27 metres for men)

    the bravery of these high divers very rarely gets the respect that is due
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We visited them in Panama City, Florida, and learned all about high divers.
    • Our high diver witnesses a shooting, and decides to hush his mouth.
    • A rotoscopically animated high diver jumps repeatedly into midair against a purplish black background, in a glittering shower of light.
    • Rolling and tumbling like a clumsy high diver, he plunged towards the Thames.
    • He competed professionally as a high diver before realizing that shallow diving offered him the chance to get into the record books.
    • He first saw high divers at an amusement park near his home in San Diego when he was 11.
    • His latest novel features a high diver, a con artist, roughneck criminals, and a Civil War reenactment.
    • Found when drunk, I was an excellent high diver.
    • You can always spot novice high divers, I'm told, by the fact they are wearing seven pairs of swimming trunks in a vain bid to hold everything in place.
    • She spent a few decades as a professional high diver, plunging from towers 30 metres above the water.
 
 
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