diving suit

noun

: a waterproof suit with a removable helmet that is worn by a diver who is supplied with air pumped through a tube

Examples of diving suit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore 3D-printed a flexible diving suit that roaches wear like a backpack. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 July 2026

His previous book, The Village Idiot (2022), explored the historical reality of the early-twentieth-century School of Paris artists from the dreamlike perspective of the expressionist painter Chaïm Soutine, who trudges beneath the Seine in a diving suit. — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

Steve was already geared up and was already in the diving suit. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026

The filmmaker walked on the wing of the biplane and also put on a diving suit to direct Cruise in a harrowing underwater submarine sequence. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 May 2025

The claustrophobic perspective from inside the diving suit will force the audience into feeling trapped with our lead character and experience her emotional journey. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025

Sandy, who sports an airtight diving suit underwater and speaks with an exaggerated Southern twang, has frequently referenced her Texas roots, but the show rarely goes above sea level with her, much less as far as Galveston. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for diving suit

• absolute
• arrowroot
• attribute
• bitterroot
• constitute
• convolute
• destitute
• disrepute
• dissolute
• execute
• institute
• involute