"preliminary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When this bathyscaphe was brought out in a freighter to do its preliminary unmanned dives in the sheltered waters off Nassau, the British and French thought it would be cheaper and more sensible to hire a local vessel suitable for the job instead of bringing one out from Europe.
- Under the supervision of the Admiral, two of the crew made a preliminary dive in aqualungs.
- Martina Jaschke (East Germany) was 4th after the preliminary high dives, behind 2 Soviets and a Mexican, but came back to win gold on the second day of competition.
- The pool here was partitioned into eight sections by transparent dividing walls that went down to the bottom and rose out of the water a good twenty feet-higher than a bottle-nose dolphin could jump, particularly with no more than three meters of water below them in which to make its preliminary dive.
- Yet he recognized the importance of this preliminary dive.
- The 12 divers with the highest combined score from the semi-final and preliminary dives advanced to the final.
- And after Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard during a preliminary dive, the camera caught his embarrassment.
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