Example sentences for: overboard

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

  • A cat purchase is a rope tackle used for hauling an anchor, especially on a cat davit , a light crane used on small vessels to hoist an anchor so it can then be swung round to lower the anchor on to the deck or overboard.

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

  • The virtue of Nagel's essay is precisely that he doesn't go overboard the way Lewis does.

  • But the Post goes a bit overboard with 120-plus words on an alleged conversation between Lewis and Lewinsky's former White House supervisor that reveal nothing about the conversation except that it lasted less than five minutes and was not confrontational.

  • This qualitative criterion is conservative from at least one perspective: If we imagine that cry b 's effect might be an elimination of per-luc and tim-luc cyclings (given the mutant's isolation phenotype [ 21 ] ), elementary scrutiny of correlogram plots increases the chance that data from a given specimen could be judged rhythmic, thereby decreasing the likelihood that we would go overboard in evaluating mutationally induced damage to the clock system.


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