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- verb diving to perform a
swan dive - verb figuratively to
plummet , drop rapidly
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Examples
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The dual purpose of creation, looking backward in that natural looping swan-dive you put me through.
living in the flames Jerry Ratch 2011
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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
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I used to swan-dive a hundred and ten feet in the clear.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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