put aboard
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The 24-year-old is known to have reached the coast of northern France in November, where he was one of about 100 people put aboard a boat fit to carry fewer than 20.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Amid solemn fanfare, the unknown was selected from a cemetery in France and his remains put aboard Olympia and brought to Washington.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
The public relations officer brought a radio ashore early among the assault waves, but it was put aboard a jeep which he was unable to find until the next day.
From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019
This production turns the remaining two acts, in which the convicted Manon is put aboard a ship bound for New Orleans, into a muddled, semiabstract representation of exile.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016
Germans were writing on the cars with blue chalk—the number of persons in each car, their rank, their nationality, the date on which they had been put aboard.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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