He whose lot floats is a righteous soul; he whose lot sinks is to be thrown overboard.
The ocean; the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard; it is a phrase for death or the other world, when speaking of a person who has been buried at sea.
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it passes astern into her wake.
Thrown overboard also means cast adrift by the captain; withdrawal of countenance and support.
They feed chiefly upon small fish and marine insects, and often gather about fishing boats, waiting for an opportunity to dive after any bit that may be thrown overboard.
They usually keep well out at sea, often hovering around fishing boats to pick up refuse that is thrown overboard.
The birds are constant companions of the whalers, and feed largely upon blubber that is thrown overboard.
On the morning of the 20th the admiral ordered the square and stream-anchors to be cut away, and within the course of the day all the lower-deck guns to be thrown overboard.
The crew began to discuss which should be thrown overboard.
On the way a storm rose, the ship sprung a leak, and the captain ordered all useless ballast to be thrown overboard.
When the ship sprung a leak, you commanded that all the superfluous ballast should be thrown overboard.
The Hatteras was then going down, and in order to save the lives of my officers and men, I caused the armament on the port side to be thrown overboard.
For you see, pilot, if one of these birds is killed, it is certain that some one of the crew must die and be thrown overboard to become a Mother Carey chicken, and replace the one that has been destroyed.
On the morning of the 20th the admiral ordered the spare and stream anchors to be cut away, and within the course of the day all the lower deck guns to be thrown overboard.
These blankets he ordered to be thrown overboard, rather than they should be suffered to breed any quarrel, as in their unhappy condition it was no time to have disputes.
It was curious to see the same chips of wood and empty hampers, and all the odds and ends thrown overboard, floating around us day after day.
Several poor children had died, and it was hard work, and cruel it seemed, to make the poor mothers give up the bodies to be thrown overboard.
A soldier (not of gentle birth) for the first offense shall be made to pass under the keel three times; and for the second be thrown overboard.
If the culprit be an individual who holds an office, for the first offense he shall lose his office; for the second he shall be thrown overboard.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrown overboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
