Sentence examples for overboard from inspiring English sources
The word "overboard" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this word when you want to indicate that someone or something has gone beyond the bounds of what is considered normal, acceptable, or reasonable. For example: "When planning the party, the decorations went overboard and the room ended up looking like a carnival."
adjective
Outside of a boat, in the water
"It is Tony Abbott's Tampa and together with the secrecy, you've got to wonder whether it's Scott Morrison's children overboard," Hanson-Young said on Wednesday.
"Thibaut regularly knocked on my door for some extra training sessions, but we didn't go overboard.
Labor in opposition, after the devastating defeat of 1996, threw overboard all of the work of the Keating government in a desperate attempt to distance itself from high interest rates, high unemployment, budget "black holes" and perceptions of arrogance.
We're always careful not to attract them by throwing fish guts overboard.
It's as if he's channeling one of those early Church Fathers who went overboard trying to justify celibacy: Tertullian, maybe, who said a woman was "a temple built over a sewer".
The infamous "graphs of doom", showing how everything else is incrementally going overboard to ensure continued delivery of essential child protection and adult social care, tell the true emerging story.
Recent musicals such as Les Miserables that emphasise that the singing is actually done by the cast have "gone overboard", she says.
But there are things that must be quickly thrown overboard.
"We also went halfway towards rethinking the party itself in terms of new community organising models, but then that was also tossed overboard in favour of a much more centralised vote-harvesting operation around voter ID.
He reportedly said in text messages to the child's mother that he "felt bad" but added: "Never do I go overboard!
Still, it is cheap when compared with the costs that arise when a new boss goes overboard perhaps after being made to walk the plank.
