How to Use diver in a Sentence
diver
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These seabirds are divers and look for fish to feed on.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
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The next day, about two and a half miles from the truck, a diver found the girl’s body.
—Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
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What the divers can’t pull away by hand is cut with scissors.
—Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
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The divers saw everything there was to see down to about 60 feet.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
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But the Dragons got a huge boost from their divers this time around.
—Matt MacCormack, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2020
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Just watching the divers walk along the platform made my heart pound.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
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As the diver gets caught up in the mystery, his past haunts him.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
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The best way to stay afloat is to keep both arms straight in front of your head, like a diver.
—Erik Vance, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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The best way to stay afloat is to keep both arms straight in front of your head, like a diver.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
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The area called the coral aquarium is a must-see for divers or snorkelers.
—John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
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One mod the Navy couldn’t hide was a diver’s chamber behind the sub’s sail.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2021
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With its vibrant coral reefs and limestone caves, Turks and Caicos is beloved by divers.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
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According to the cave guide, divers have tried to find where the massive amounts of water from the cave end up.
—Megan Dubois, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
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So Dulin launched off his feet like a diver from a plank and stretched all 6-foot-1 of him across the grass until the ball stuck to his hands.
—Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
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The Army describes the type of device the diver found as a riot control hand grenade.
—Michelle Watson, CNN, 4 June 2023
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The search efforts also involved divers, a boat and drone.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
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According to local divers, the greater the damage in a particular area of the reef, the more the fish seem to use the move.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
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The Hoosiers’ Andrew Capobianco was co-diver of the meet and Mitchell freshman of the year.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2021
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In this project, divers collect fragments from the ocean floor that have been knocked off reefs by storms or waves.
—National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
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The Olympic diver is also not the only one who is on the lookout for all the hot athletes at the Paris Games.
—Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
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The booze-laden wreck was discovered this month by a team of Polish divers called Baltitech.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
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The car was later recovered, but divers weren’t able to find the driver.
—oregonlive, 18 May 2020
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Depth depends on whether the jerk bait is a deep or shallow diver.
—Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2022
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The Solon Comets sent four divers to Canton, the most of any school in any of the four diving competitions.
—cleveland, 20 Feb. 2020
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White was found by divers about 11 feet underwater on the southwest side of the lake.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
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An autopsy will determine the cause and manner of death of the two divers.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
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Here’s a picture of one of the Sea Kings dropping a navy diver into the water in 2011.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2021
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State police from Lamar deployed divers and search dogs to the areas around the boat launch in Wayne Township.
—Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2020
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Terry Kennedy is an elderly diver who once rode with the Hells Angels and tended bar for the Doors.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 June 2025
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The pocket watch was discovered by divers in 1992, but remained in the U.S. until this May, when it was given to a historian to examine.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2025
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