overboard
Example Sentences
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When a British vessel threatened the ship that carried it, however, the captain threw the document overboard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
According to the Associated Press, Meadows died after he was reported to have fallen overboard around 170 miles north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Boylan himself called in a Mayday at 3:14 a.m. and jumped overboard, which prosecutors described as abandoning ship.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
A US Marine who fell overboard from an attack ship in the Caribbean has become the first known American casualty in the Trump administration's operation targeting drug-trafficking boats.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
We all fell overboard, landing in the waters of our very own eddy in the Rio Grande.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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