overboard
Example Sentences
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Lines such as “I love to count, it relaxes me and it gives me an achievable goal” point at a disquieting loneliness without going overboard.
You think they’d fall overboard and get clean once in a while.”
From Los Angeles Times
For the past three hours, Machado and a small crew had drifted on a skiff in the Gulf of Venezuela after its GPS fell overboard on rough seas and a backup failed.
She said theories included it was captured accidentally by a trawler and then thrown overboard, or killed by a whale.
From BBC
Sixteen containers, mostly full of bananas, fell overboard off the Isle of Wight on Saturday, at about 18:00 GMT.
From BBC
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