Definitions

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  • verb diving to perform a swan dive
  • verb figuratively to plummet, drop rapidly

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Examples

  • The dual purpose of creation, looking backward in that natural looping swan-dive you put me through.

    living in the flames Jerry Ratch 2011

  • It was all one — ­to dance, as she well knew, beautifully; to dress with distinction and beauty; to swan-dive, all grace and courage, as few women dared; or, all fragility, to avalanche down the spill-way on the back of Mountain

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • I used to swan-dive a hundred and ten feet in the clear.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

  • Ms. Racette's physical acting style ends in a spectacular, swan-dive suicide leap, which substantiates the scorn you feel for her weak husband (John Graham-Hall), weedy lover (Stuart Skelton) and hideously vile mother-in-law, Kabanicha, deliciously played like the Disney witch in "Snow White" by Susan Bickley.

    ENO Offers Opera Treat Paul Levy 2010

  • Ms. Racette's physical acting style ends in a spectacular, swan-dive suicide leap, which substantiates the scorn you feel for her weak husband (John Graham-Hall), weedy lover (Stuart Skelton) and hideously vile mother-in-law, Kabanicha, deliciously played like the Disney witch in "Snow White" by Susan Bickley.

    ENO Offers Opera Treat Paul Levy 2010

  • Ms. Racette's physical acting style ends in a spectacular, swan-dive suicide leap, which substantiates the scorn you feel for her weak husband (John Graham-Hall), weedy lover (Stuart Skelton) and hideously vile mother-in-law, Kabanicha, deliciously played like the Disney witch in "Snow White" by Susan Bickley.

    ENO Offers Opera Treat Paul Levy 2010

  • Pseudo-Marie is drowned, * with eyeballs like peeled and boiled eggs, and she chases Real-Marie until Real-Marie flees the premises and does an accidental swan-dive into the river.

    The Abandoned moriarty6 2007

  • I would recommend it to the reader who likes to swan-dive into words and then just loll around in them for the joy of it.

    Masterpiece Debut: "Desideria" by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

  • I guess if Paris Hilton and Britney Spears find their way into a presidential campaign commercial, perhaps it's become acceptable, or at least understandable, to become laminated to the illicit coupling of a spacey blonde with headbanded flyaway hair and a onetime hero who performed a splashy swan-dive off his Olympic-height political pedestal.

    Mary Lyon: When You Act Like a Jerk, You're Gonna Be Treated Like a Jerk 2008

  • No, Paulson intends to hand out lavish treats to his banker buddies, while interest rates soar, pension funds collapse, the housing market crashes, and the dollar does a last, looping swan-dive into a pool of molten lava.

    BAILOUT OF BUSH ECONOMIC FAILURE NOT WARRANTED 2008

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