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Sentences ending with overboard

The lake-front is walled with masonry like a pier, and has a railing, to keep people from walking overboard. [5]
For a time the sober ants did as they had done at first--carried their friends home and threw the strangers overboard. [5]
If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. [5]
They hove all that load overboard. [5]
Once, when we spun around, we only missed a house about twenty feet, that had a light burning in the window; and in the same instant that house went overboard. [5]
It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. [5]
This Union shall never be abandoned, unless the possibility of its existence shall cease to exist without the necessity of throwing passengers and cargo overboard. [7]
But finally they lost patience, seeing that their reformatory efforts went for nothing, and threw both friends and strangers overboard. [5]
A local outbreak, if you will, but so was throwing the tea overboard. [6]
All at once I remembered something peculiar in that cry of "Man overboard! [11]

Short sentences using overboard

Heave the whole cargo overboard! [5]
With cries of "Man overboard! [11]

More example sentences with the word overboard in them

There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
His consumptive appearance when he went on board caused the captain to say to himself, "There's a chap who will go overboard before we get across;" but his condition was much improved by the voyage. [4]
Barbeyrac threw overboard the old complex medical farragos of the pharmacopoeias, as his church had disburdened itself of the popish ceremonies. [3]
The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal. [5]
I am aware that this would be a grave step, and we should not hasten to throw overboard Luther and the right of private judgment without reflection. [4]
I hunted up that cup of tea as diligently as ever a Boston matron sought for the last leaves in her old caddy after the tea-chests had been flung overboard at Griffin's wharf,--but no matter about that, now. [6]
And you are sure, also, that if you chance suddenly to fetch up against the embankment and topple your chimneys overboard, you will have the small comfort of knowing that it is about what you were expecting to do. [5]
It will be supposed he fell overboard during the accident to the boat. [11]
All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. [5]
The moon had scarcely risen when the boat was stranded at a short distance below Fostat, and the men had to go overboard to push it off to an accompaniment of loud singing which, as it were, welded their individual wills and efforts into one. [10]
As they had rounded the point, where they were hid from view, Abednego dropped overboard and swam ashore on the rising tide, making his way to the manor to warn Buonespoir. [11]
Mr. Bolton was relieved, exactly as a water-logged ship is lightened by throwing overboard the most valuable portion of the cargo--but the leak was not stopped. [5]
Alexander de la Pole was pushed overboard or fell over, and was drowned. [5]
Another yelp, and overboard you go. [5]
Speak up prompt, or overboard you go. [5]
He jumped overboard one day to get away from the flies. [5]
At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers. [5]
However, when I observed that the other gondolas had sailed away, and my gondolier was preparing to go overboard, I stopped. [5]
But I was not alone--the loosened cargo tumbled overboard from the pack horse and fell close to me. [5]
He returned the next night, got the pulp renewed, and went overboard head first, as before. [5]
Unable to contain myself more, I flung my drum overboard and went after it, and amid shouts and laughter I was towed across by James Ray. [9]
When we 'uz mos' down to de head er de islan' a man begin to come aft wid de lantern, I see it warn't no use fer to wait, so I slid overboard en struck out fer de islan'. [5]
I know of men who, fevered with bad food, have fallen, from the mainmast-head, or have slipped overboard, glad to go, because of the wrongs they'd suffered. [11]
They painted the mare blue, in sight of town, and threw the preacher overboard, or we should not have arrived at all. [5]
And here we lie becalmed on a glassy sea--we do not move an inch-we throw banana and orange peel overboard and it lies still on the water by the vessel's side. [5]
And just to let you know what a literal old law-brief he is, when I said he had had a hat-pin sticking in him for several weeks, he nearly jumped overboard, and began to feel himself all over. [9]
Getting married is jumping overboard, any way you look at it, and if you must save some woman from drowning an old maid, try to find one with a cork jacket, or she 'll carry you down with her. [6]
A sailor had jumped overboard at Constantinople one night, and was seen no more, but it was suspected that his object was to desert, and there was a slim chance, at least, that he reached the shore. [5]
You understand what is for my advantage is for yours, and, if I go wrong, you go overboard with me. [6]
Pitch 'em overboard in the morning. [4]
He would gladly have thrown botany or anything else overboard to win the good opinion of Evelyn's mother, but botany now had a real significance and a new meaning for him. [4]
Now his owner has to pay L10 or heave him overboard. [5]
And while she had never considered these things, the spectacle of a philosophy--embodied in him--that frankly and cynically threw them overboard was disconcerting. [9]
When two men had dropped from the masts, hurrying to get down because of his threat that the last man should be thrashed--when the two men lay smashed to pieces at his feet, Pigot said: 'Heave the lubbers overboard. [11]
I suppose he had appeased his appetite on the heads and other remains of the bonitos we had thrown overboard. [5]
So overboard he goes again, to hunt for another Ararat and find another quicksand. [5]
When a submarine gets you, all you've got to do is to jump overboard and blow this-- (He draws the siren from the pocket and starts to blow it, but she seizes his hand. [9]
It looked so fiendishly selfish, so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security, that the noble-minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing. [7]
I expect nothing else but to lose some of them overboard. [5]
I'd have been dropped overboard, or stabbed in my cabin, as was that famous Captain Pigot, son of an admiral, who had as much soul as you'd find in a stone-quarry. [11]
We watched our chance as she rolled, and hove overboard our broadside of long twelve- pounders. [11]
We saw one carried to mid-stream and thrown overboard. [5]
But when it came to be known that somehow or other the dogs never got to the island, but always fell overboard in the night and perished, another howl was raised and the transportation scheme was dropped. [5]
But when he came back insinuating, in an insolent, swaggering way, that some of this things were missing, and was going to search the other passengers' baggage, it was too much, and they threw him overboard. [5]
But when he came back insinuating in an insolent, swaggering way, that some of his things were missing, and was going to search the other passengers' baggage, it was too much, and they threw him overboard. [5]
But by and by the king tripped and fell overboard, and after that they took a rest, and had a talk about all kinds of adventures they'd had in other times along the river. [5]
I knowed it, because they cheered up so, the minute I says le's throw this truck overboard. [5]
If there is anything calculated to send a thrill of awe through a crowd, it is the cry of "Man overboard! [11]
He would come, and we would heave him overboard, or get killed trying. [5]
Lend a hand and less heave him overboard! [5]
If the ships all moved in the one direction--westward, I mean--the world would suffer a prodigious loss--in the matter of valuable time, through the dumping overboard on the Great Meridian of such multitudes of days by ships crews and passengers. [5]
I had got about three-fourths of the length back again, when I heard a cry from aft--a sharp call of "Man overboard! [11]
We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard. [5]
I never heard a sailor proclaiming himself as a handful of American citizens traveling for recreation, but I wished he might trip and fall overboard, and so reduce his handful by one individual, at least. [5]
The Mississippi is a just and equitable river; it never tumbles one man's farm overboard without building a new farm just like it for that man's neighbor. [5]
In a storm a disaster occurred to his vessel, his captain was washed overboard, and he was obliged to take command. [11]
There has been a deal of cricket-playing on board; it seems a queer game for a ship, but they enclose the promenade deck with nettings and keep the ball from flying overboard, and the sport goes very well, and is properly violent and exciting . [5]

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