throw overboard
Example Sentences
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Instead, the crew prepared to throw overboard large, shock-absorbing fenders to protect their ship.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2018
The president didn't get Gonzalez from the , but at least he retrieved the guy he had to throw overboard to get him from the Padres.
From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 7, 2012
Frondizi has survived 34 full-scale crises in his 3� years in office, and seems to have an instinctive sense of how much ballast to throw overboard in order to stay afloat.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right of way to broad casting.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when you trim your ship to run before a gale you must throw overboard just such freight.
From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by Carleton, William
