How to Use diver in a Sentence

diver

noun
  • These seabirds are divers and look for fish to feed on.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The next day, about two and a half miles from the truck, a diver found the girl’s body.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • What the divers can’t pull away by hand is cut with scissors.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The divers saw everything there was to see down to about 60 feet.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • But the Dragons got a huge boost from their divers this time around.
    — Matt MacCormack, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2020
  • In a full dress rehearsal the day before, the flares worn by sky divers singed the field.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Just watching the divers walk along the platform made my heart pound.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But the divers braved the frigid water and the strong currents anyway.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
  • As the diver gets caught up in the mystery, his past haunts him.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the way up, divers performed a safety stop marked by a rope.
    — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
  • From March to June, divers may even spot an elusive Whale Shark.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The area called the coral aquarium is a must-see for divers or snorkelers.
    — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • One mod the Navy couldn’t hide was a diver’s chamber behind the sub’s sail.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But the contents were held in place by the thick mud of the riverbed—until divers found them some 3000 years later.
    — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 15 Oct. 2019
  • With its vibrant coral reefs and limestone caves, Turks and Caicos is beloved by divers.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Army describes the type of device the diver found as a riot control hand grenade.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • The search efforts also involved divers, a boat and drone.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • The Hoosiers’ Andrew Capobianco was co-diver of the meet and Mitchell freshman of the year.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Attached to the divers were lights as well as pyrotechnics.
    — London Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • The booze-laden wreck was discovered this month by a team of Polish divers called Baltitech.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
  • The car was later recovered, but divers weren’t able to find the driver.
    — oregonlive, 18 May 2020
  • At the time, police searched with dogs and dozens of volunteers while divers checked area lakes, according to reports at the time.
    — Bill Laytner, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • After retrieving the bone and bringing it to the surface, the divers called authorities at 7:43 p.m.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 2 July 2025

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