"dive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dive verbo

dive + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
dive into • dive for • dive down • dive under • dive at • ...
dive + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 23
dive forward • dive straight • dive headlong • dive headfirst • dive deep • ...
(1) forward, low
Kolokacji: 2
1. dive headlong = zanurkuj głową do przodu dive headlong
2. dive headfirst = zanurkuj na głowę dive headfirst
3. suddenly dive = nagle zanurkuj suddenly dive
  • That movement of his body must have pushed the stick ahead, for the raider suddenly dived.
  • As it crossed its own lines, a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun.
  • He dove suddenly down the side of his bed, startling Julien considerably.
  • It seemed to remain stationary in this position for many seconds (perhaps twenty), then suddenly dove straight down out of sight.
  • Long before it got there, the falcon turned north again, flew a little way, and dived suddenly to earth.
  • For they dived suddenly, as do hunting gulls upon their prey, down into the well of the world.
  • All this looks rather conventional until he suddenly dives under the bench and is eclipsed.
  • They were flying low over the lake when the plane suddenly dived and hit the water.
  • They suddenly dived and grasped the fish with their snouts.
  • The pilot of a small aeroplane has died after his aircraft suddenly dove into the sea for unknown reasons.

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