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Sentence Examples When the food started arriving I began to realise I had gone overboard, because the portions were enormous. Warner Brothers included some nice extras, but didn't go overboard on the unnecessaries you'll really only watch once. Mercifully, the sail contraption collapsed and fell overboard before I even got it up. Waves broke constantly over the deck, washing whole groups of terrified passengers overboard. Maybe you should at least use the spellchecker before tossing it overboard? The picture is good at spoofing the hermetic atmosphere of academia without going overboard into parody or caricature. When the wind and rain blew hard they were forced to use all their strength just to keep from going overboard. We were just beginning to congratulate ourselves on a successful launch, when there was a huge crack, and the mast was carried away overboard! So why have religious people been cowed into throwing their opinions overboard so easily? Since the receiver is aluminum it is possible to strip out the threads if you go overboard with the hex wrench. Mind you, we didn't go overboard as it wasn't the best time to celebrate in the middle of a World Cup. She tossed the small plastic cards overboard and watched them sail into the water. Some think he fell overboard, but others are now saying they saw him leave the boat when it docked. He was eventually washed overboard and made it first to a raft, then to a collapsible boat before rescue. The boat's French skipper was still missing last night and is believed to have been washed overboard on Friday. But in the end the ship got stuck on the river bank and started spilling its cargo of timber overboard. Most of the 25 crew jumped overboard when the blast happened, and only one was injured. The kids all wore life-jackets and we soon stopped worrying about them tumbling overboard. Aft of the galley is a head with an integral shower with sump to discharge shower water overboard. Soon however, the whales realised the sailors had jumped overboard and were swimming to the safety of shore. Show More Sentences He was seen tossing deckchairs into the water to give people who had already jumped overboard something to cling to. The crew of a sailing ship have escaped prosecution after a man fell overboard from their vessel and died. Three of these massive steel containers were lost overboard in the water of Man last November and only one has been recovered. He plays a vital role travelling ahead of us to check our intended route is safely passable and helping anyone who falls overboard. Then the trap is shut and Mark waits as Gerry repositions the boat and gives him the signal to drop it overboard. I fell overboard and emerged from the water some 300 yards further down the weir. The yacht was suddenly engulfed by a huge wave while Mr Cammish was preparing the tow and he was washed overboard. He is presumed to have fallen overboard and drowned, but his body has not been found. Enthusiasm for a presidential contender often causes people to go overboard with their praise and lose touch with reality. By following these guidelines, rather than avoiding certain foods, I'll be less inclined to binge on empty calories or go overboard at mealtime. But there is another reason why some people had the impression that the press has gone overboard. It does annoy me the way we go completely overboard regarding any young British tennis hopeful who manages to win a couple of matches. Suggesting that you might paste it into a scrapbook would have been going a little overboard, but you get the gist. As if it wasn't already apparent that I've gone overboard, my contribution for today to 100 Words has a decidedly familiar theme. When I have a craving, I can enjoy one bag of chips or cookies without worrying about going overboard. You first have to be aware of what you are carrying before you can make the decision to throw it overboard. Yet it is precisely because it is such an anchor that we need to throw it overboard and set ourselves free. Yesterday, with his critics closing in on him, the Tory leader threw that good work overboard. What republican would not hoick his or her beliefs overboard to wallow in such taxpayer-funded luxury? There were all-night partyers trying not to fall overboard as the fitness freaks jogged past them at sunup. Show More Sentences This is a woman whose man-meeting strategy is to go on cruises and toss herself overboard to attract rescue-minded hunks. Take your boat to an empty space and do some man overboard drills with a fender, or practice backing up to a race mark. However, we have fuel venting overboard through the filler cap on the right external tank. Throwing the captain, his first mate and even half the crew of the Titanic overboard would not have avoided imminent disaster. I admit to taking my couponing overboard on occasion but the space limitations of my home prevail. Here are a few tips on how to have a fun-filled prom night without going too overboard with expenses. It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard. Once overboard, the buoyant mine and its sinker separated but were held together by a chain set to the requisite length. Allegations were made that the asylum-seekers had deliberately thrown their children overboard. On the other hand, we see a different picture, in which youngsters go overboard about fashion and a glitzy life style. The one real weakness is the central performance by a less than distinguished actor who tends to go overboard when he tries to emote. We ditched all the debris overboard and the chippies welded a piece of steel over the hole so we could carry on. The sound engineers go way overboard layering the electronica over the instruments, downplaying the women's talents. Its timber ceiling easily accepted our drawing pins so we went particularly overboard with criss-crossing ceiling streamers. So please calibrate this rave according to your own tolerance for artsy-fartsy pop, but don't go overboard. When he went aft to add some oil to the engine, he slipped on spilled oil and fell overboard. They will also float if you drop one overboard and you can scoop it up with a fish net. The sea around this area is littered with amphorae, which ancient mariners cast overboard as offerings to the gods. Two crew members went overboard into the 58-degree water and only one had on an inflatable life jacket. The same logo hangs over cabin toilets and on deck rails, with signs urging passengers not to throw trash overboard. Show More Sentences The vessel went over on her beam ends at 9 o'clock Monday morning, and eleven men were washed overboard and lost. Boats can be booby traps, with things like cleats placed awkwardly around the deck to stub bare feet or even send you tumbling overboard. He tossed all the company men overboard and took his rag tag crew on a meandering route to Barbados. A Scottish sailor met his death when he fell overboard from his yacht off the Mayo coast, an inquest in Ballina was told. And when a ship need underway replenishment or a shipmate goes overboard, this highly-qualified team s launched into action. Blaming their own ignorance, they recount how in the past they would pump oil overboard or let oil collect in their boat's bilges. Reportedly, the crew ordered the immigrants overboard when the boat began having engine trouble. Smear your critics, and when that blows up in your face, throw rationality overboard and smear them some more. Most involve people who never expected to end up in the water, but fell overboard or ended up in the water when the boat sank. But if we do go overboard at the office party, experts say we should try to spare our blushes. Okay, so maybe I kind of went overboard by highlighting and underlining my own name in the playbill, but I can't help it! There was speculation that he might have been struck by the boom and thrown overboard as he changed the sail. Peering overboard, I see twisting whirlpools and black, churning water. On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard. Robert wadded up the handkerchief and tossed it overboard as well. Like many overconfident, would-be sailors, he simply went overboard. But then he very skillfully and decisively throws Carrie overboard to protect the agency. Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity. A hipster belt draws attention to your curves without going overboard. The movie goes a little overboard with its repeated use of Plato's discussion of Atlantis, but makes up for it with the more obscure reference to the biblical leviathan. Show More Sentences Peterhead clings to its harbour like a man overboard grips a lifebuoy. Without going overboard on the bent-backed, swivel-eyed cackling often brought to the character, his Fagin is believably unscrupulous and self-serving. En route to California, he reportedly tossed his works of Lenin overboard, to avoid trouble from the U.S. authorities. A suspicious Cal soon discovers his father was complicit in taking Richard out to sea and throwing him overboard. And if I go overboard, I eat crow and apologize and beg for mercy. The administration decided to throw balanced budgets overboard. It is easy to go overboard in childproofing our culture, and it is easy to underestimate the ability of children to contend with and to process cultural influences. Thousands of kilometers of fine-meshed nets are thrown overboard every year, catching vulnerable deep-sea species such as sharks and orange roughy. After all, when the MRM decides a woman has transgressed even in the slightest, some of its members tend to go overboard. During the race, Tom Droescher, working as the spinnaker trimmer, was swept overboard during a jibe and landed on his back in the 45-degree waters of Puget Sound. Exchange can be used for much more than email and calendaring, and it's unlikely that customers can throw an Active Directory-based architecture overboard just like that. Not wanting anyone to see such a tiddler he hoyed it overboard. Bikini-clad boaters at midnight carelessly spill red wine overboard. Murray dropped a cannon overboard into the canoe of Islanders who paddled out to meet the ship, sinking their vessel and allowing the ship's crew to grab the floating men. Float coat pre-ops are the first line of defense in saving your life if you go overboard. Campbell recalls a previous tour, during which an unarmed HH-65 chased a go-fast boat, and could only watch as it threw its contraband overboard. But this new study indicates that Weiner may be going a wee bit overboard. He hired a vessel crewed by Corinthians, whom he felt he could trust, but the sailors plotted to throw him overboard and seize his wealth. Character, science and history coevolve marvelously here in a tale of fanaticism gone literally overboard. On every voyage a sailor would face the risk of falling overboard and drowning, starvation, disease, abuse, accidents in the rigging, and attack. Show More Sentences You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings. According to the story, he threw two carved pillars overboard as he neared land, vowing to settle wherever they landed. The yacht on which he was sailing collided with a trawler and Hampson, 31, was knocked overboard. Over-enthusiastic mourning in anything stronger than a Force Four might see more going overboard than an urnful of ashes. Does thou think anybody but theeself would jump overboard a night like this? They unlaid the hatches, cut the chests, and shoved the tea all overboard, where it was damaged and lost. Sea Cadets on the yardarms of the Training Ship Royalist in Portsmouth several hours before a cadet fell overboard from the ship and died. The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard. Was her own conversion fueled by an ultimatum too, leaving her pungent with confidence yet sulky about heaving the ear lier values overboard? She is pulled overboard but, deep under water, changes her mind and kicks free and is pulled to safety. In July 2013, Campion revealed that she originally intended for the main character to drown in the sea after going overboard after her piano. Discard dilemma When fishing fleets threw smaller amounts of discarded fish overboard, great skuas made up for lost meals by increasing attacks on other seabirds. When the terrified, bleeding cow was washed overboard into the river, the hungry piranhas entered a feeding frenzy, turning the water red with blood. From the tough guys forced to dress as women to the prim parson reluctantly press-ganged into working with the prisoners to save his harpsichord from being heaved overboard. Cut off, the native crew leaped overboard and tried to swim back to shore. He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1773, the tea ships moored in Boston Harbor were boarded by colonists and the tea thrown overboard, an event that became known as the Boston Tea Party. The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck. Mariners also risk injury or death from falling overboard and from hazards associated with working with machinery, heavy loads, and dangerous cargo. Other fatalities were suicides, slaves who escaped by jumping overboard. Show More Sentences Atmosphere control equipment includes a CO2 scrubber, which uses an amine absorbent to remove the gas from air and diffuse it into waste pumped overboard. William Wood who was convicted and hanged for taking his captains money after he and another sailor got in an argument with him and threw him overboard. When he discovered it was a case of books, he threw it overboard. According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock. Soon after the ship's arrival, and upon hailing the vessel, the Miss Tiffany's crewmembers were seen jettisoning a number of suspect packages overboard. Examples from Classical Literature In this mortal peril the father determined to offer sedna to the birds and flung her overboard. I have before been in a storm without a bailer, which had been washed overboard, and almost lost my life through the same cause. Then he baited his two hooks with bits of tentacle and threw them overboard. The hull of the blitz loomed up, and a minute later our kedge was splashing overboard and the launch was backing alongside. He stuffed me into that suffocating basketball without a by-your-leave and they threw me overboard. A few minutes after they caught the first one its carcase was flung overboard. We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard. The hurling of the bomb overboard had shot the cibola heavenward like a bird. The circulating water, after passing through the condenser, discharges overboard through the circulator discharge pipe. To add to the clanger, the gratings had been thrown overboard, and there was no way of confining the captives in the hold. When sail and oar and setting-pole proved unavailing, the men were out and overboard, running the banks with the cordelle. The cotton was thrown overboard as fast as we could, and what the men could not start the seas did. He seized the moment when the Tortoise righted after her first plunge, grasped a life buoy and flung himself overboard. With one accord they sprang overboard and swam for the nearest shore, that of the eyot. The sky-light-hood had been thrown overboard, and was floating in the ship's wake. Yet these young reformers had no intention of throwing overboard all the charms of floridity in song. She had a deckload of it, and she'd heave it overboard every time the wind changed. The top of the hot well is provided with a vapor pipe, which permits the air and gases to pass overboard. The choice offered me was practically whether I preferred being thrown overboard now or several hundred miles to southeastward. Pedro, if you ever keek me, you'll go overboard queek and don't you forget it. Show More Sentences The ward-room was then scuttled to get at the kentledge, twelve tons of which were thrown overboard. When the sunspot reached the center of the lake, the boys hove to, stripped down to their trunks, and dived overboard. The offensive antics of a lighterman in mid-stream, who nearly fell overboard in his efforts to attract his attention, he ignored. Cinny put up an indifferent hand to her fair hair, one of the cushions fell overboard, also a ukulele. Yes, we know all about you, and any monkey business on your part, overboard you go! They stole brass nails and small metal objects, hid them in their wooly and long hair, and then jumped overboard. The latter had lingered in hopes of rescuing his peavy, which had gone overboard. This plater began to shovel overboard, working with furious energy, as though combating a hated enemy. I should simply have been poleaxed and dropped overboard, while the yacht sailed away. Through the preventer stern-post, reeve guys, and at the fore part of them fix tackles, and then put the machine overboard. It is better to throw overboard both the name and the idea of catarrhal inflammation or rhinitis and start afresh. And again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked it overboard. All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. The boy was next attacked-with threats of throwing him overboard. I'll throw him overboard before such a disgrace befall us or him. He would come, and we would heave him overboard, or get killed trying. I shouldn't wonder if Liverpool got moonstruck and just pitched overboard. If 'twas one of the hands I guess likely she'd have hove him overboard. By this accident we lost three men overboard with the caboose, and nearly the whole of the larboard bulwarks. He flung himself at the port ventilator as though he meant to tear it out bodily and toss it overboard. Show More Sentences Well, it was noble to see Launcelot and the boys swarm up onto that scaffold and heave sheriffs and such overboard. Finally the man flung his cigar overboard and went down the stairway. If that critter fell overboard I wouldn't heave him no life-preserver. Perhaps even Lahbo dropped the dah overboard, for all I know. He lent me some duck things of his own, for those I had worn in the boat had been thrown overboard. Throw that anchor overboard, Wally, and Ill tinker with the troublemaker. Say, Tom, that IS tough, having your meteorite thrown overboard! For a moment she paused, and then, almost noiselessly, dove overboard and disappeared beneath the black waters. Joe, on Captain Cameron's orders, throws overboard public sector wage slaves and the helpless, but with a mutinous fist and a tear in his eye. In August, off the Jamaican coast, a man fell overboard and was drowned. Instead of acting like a sensible man, and throwing Frank overboard, Captain Kirke was fool enough to listen to his story. They got into the car, and the bags of ballast were tossed overboard. Waltzers spun around precariously for a matter of fifteen seconds and then went scurrying down to the rail as if they meant to go overboard. He sulkily picked up the codlines, and threw the hooks overboard. The yachtsman went overboard while out racing between Conwy and Beaumaris on Saturday afternoon. Furling the sail and lashing it securely about the mast, boom, sprit, and two pairs of spare oars, I threw it overboard. A line bent to the eye of a swab for dipping it overboard in washing it. I filled the Chambertin bottle with water and dropped it overboard. I have chastised him, as he deserves, and thrown his whip overboard. He announced himself as the archangel Gabriel, and commanded the captain to jump overboard. Show More Sentences Tossing overboard bits of wood, bottles and empty tins, Captain Van Horn ordered the eight eager boat's crew with rifles to turn loose. We was heaving cargo overboard like a leaky ship in a typhoon. One of the sailors was in the act of throwing overboard a life buoy. So overboard he goes again, to hunt for another Ararat and find another quicksand. It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. Toward the close of the third day's travel there was a cry from one of the rear boats, and an alarm of a man having fallen overboard was given. The surest method of allaying a storm is to throw a prophet overboard. For an instant he leaned upon the tiller wheel, when a blow from behind, with a war-club, felled him to the deck, where he was despatched with knives and thrown overboard. And an officer of the ship, finding the boat he was in overladen with women and children, leapt overboard to give them a better chance of escaping. They had eaten of this marvelous fruit which nature concentrates within the hard shell of the sorapus nut, and having eaten had cast the husk overboard. When the boats catch too much fish, the trust throws them overboard from Fisherman Wharf, boat-loads, and boat-loads, and boatloads of the beautiful fish. If old Rad were here now, I'd tell him to jump overboard and scatter 'em. And now you want the bo's'n to jump him and throw him overboard. Find more words! 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