How to Use diving board in a Sentence

diving board

noun
  • Back in the day, there was a high diving board and epic card games like pan poker.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Three adolescent girls stand in line at the deep end’s diving board.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • Young and old displayed their skills from the starting block to the diving board.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • When this happens, the entire ground around the tree will feel like a diving board.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • On one side are lanes for lap swimming; on the other is a deep pool with three diving boards.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • The pool ranges from 3 feet to 12 feet and includes diving boards.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • No one was better on the diving board than Herz this season.
    — Tyler McManus, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The depth varies — one end is a kiddie splash pool while part of the middle is roped off for a diving board.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Two diving boards were removed, and the pool basin was repainted.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The firm speedboard is akin to a diving board, with a little give, albeit one tuned high.
    — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
  • In the middle of the water stood a hut with a wooden diving board attached to its dock.
    — Raymond Ang, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The cameras move from loungers to diving boards, catching mid-air dives and models stretched out in the sun.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Under the olive trees in the front yard sat a wooden diving board in its delivery box.
    — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • My favorite part of the property is the diving board into the sea.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Aug. 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
  • The pool, located on the first floor, will have lap lanes, a shallow end with a play area and a diving board.
    — Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The swimming pool is deep enough to accommodate plunges from a diving board.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are diving boards, flume slides and water playground features for your kids to enjoy.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • If that’s not enough, there are two heated salt water pools and hot tubs with a hidden slide, jumping rock, and diving board.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • For fun, Israel loves swimming, and jumping off the diving board is one of his favorite things.
    — The Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Jumping in the sea is also in the cards, since the yacht has a special ledge built into the side that acts as a mini diving board.
    — Katia Damborsky, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her coach, Tim Kelly, tethered her to a diving board to add some resistance.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The city’s Bexley Pool with its diving boards, waterfalls and big slide is a few minutes away.
    — cleveland.com, 16 July 2019

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