Example sentences for: overboard

How can you use “overboard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • No wonder modern women went overboard once their skirts rose off the ground and pants became an option.

  • Many sailors could not swim, so being lost overboard was a fate they all dreaded.

  • Similarly, architect Viollet-le-Duc often went overboard restoring some of the great Gothic cathedrals and medieval châteaux in ways their original creators had never imagined.

  • Both Lewis and Males go overboard, he by playing loose with statistics that demonize parents, she by romanticizing teen-agers.

  • He says the press has gone overboard in its investigation of President Clinton's personal life--although Clinton's lies in Flytrap have only justified the media's rapaciousness, he laments.


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