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Example sentences for: overboard

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Jeans mentions one modern authority, whose identity I should like to know, who makes the intriguing suggestion that horses aboard sailing ships often had to be lifted overboard into the sea to relieve their thirst, a theory that even Jeans regards as ludicrous.
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.
On the other hand, the death of Laura "Dinky" Patterson during a rehearsal for a bungee-jumping routine led reporters to question whether organizers had finally gone overboard.
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.
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.