How to Use diving board in a Sentence

diving board

noun
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  • The pool ranges from 3 feet to 12 feet and includes diving boards.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • Young and old displayed their skills from the starting block to the diving board.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Back in the day, there was a high diving board and epic card games like pan poker.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • On the first or second day of the camp, the coaches let the campers jump off the one-meter diving board and play in the pool.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2021
  • When this happens, the entire ground around the tree will feel like a diving board.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The pitcher stood on the diving board while the second basemen manned a spot in the shallow end.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 13 June 2019
  • Down the sloped yard, within view of the terrace, is a pool complete with lounge chairs and a diving board.
    — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2018
  • In the middle of the water stood a hut with a wooden diving board attached to its dock.
    — Raymond Ang, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Tom Daley has been making a name for himself at the Tokyo Olympic Games on and off the diving board.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Three adolescent girls stand in line at the deep end’s diving board.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • The rocky ledge - at 3,200 feet - resembles a diving board.
    — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The firm speedboard is akin to a diving board, with a little give, albeit one tuned high.
    — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Imagine a diving board as long as a human hair is wide.
    — Andy Berger, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2015
  • The house is cleaned up now, and the pool is converted to a vegetable garden, its diving board still in place at the old deep end.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Under the olive trees in the front yard sat a wooden diving board in its delivery box.
    — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • When a neighborhood child at a pool was too afraid to jump off the diving board, there was one man who knew just what to do to show the kid how to be brave.
    — Kamron Taylor, ajc, 12 July 2018
  • Some kids stepped up to the diving board, hoping for a graceful dive but ending in a half belly flop.
    — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022
  • Two diving boards were removed, and the pool basin was repainted.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The time for contemplation is not at the edge of the diving board because going back down the ladder is worse than the distance to the pool.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Built in 1952, the stylish home expands to a courtyard with a koi pond, a hillside patio and a swimming pool with a diving board.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2020
  • More top sports stories: The singer started her show at the United Center in Chicago — just the second stop of the tour — perched at the edge of a diving board.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The city’s Bexley Pool with its diving boards, waterfalls and big slide is a few minutes away.
    — cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
  • The swimming pool is deep enough to accommodate plunges from a diving board.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • Two summers ago, a teenager who jumped off the diving board started struggling and flailing her arms in the deep end.
    — Michelle Andrews, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • Within the last year or so, both went from being in awe of the deep end to spending all their summer pool time jumping off the diving board.
    — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • There’s a giant body slide, drop slide, splash pad, tot slide, lap pool, diving boards and concession stand.
    — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • For her part, Robbie’s younger and fictional Kayla stands on the diving board, ready to jump — or be pushed — into the deep end.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The competition pool will feature a 10-lane, 25-yard swim course and two diving boards.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There’s an Olympic-sized outdoor swimming pool with a resident DJ and a 10-foot diving board.
    — Annie Archer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The diving board has two people on top — one sitting and one standing — who appear to be deciding whether to jump.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 17 July 2024

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