Sentence examples for swept overboard from inspiring English sources
Those on deck were swept overboard.
Mami and Papi are swept overboard, leaving the children to sail on alone.
The Vema rode a severe storm in 1954, Ewing & 3 others were swept overboard; 1 crew member drowned.
They were freezing, hungry (their supplies had mostly been swept overboard) and the smashed mast looked beyond repair.
There would be two more big waves to come, with their safety harnesses keeping the men from being swept overboard.
Ōnishi testified that large waves swept him overboard and far from his sinking ship, preventing him from assisting the rest of Ehime Maru crew as they clung to the sinking ship.
He may have crossed oceans solo, but it was a storm off the coast of Ireland that swept one-armed yachtsman Keith White overboard.
In the huge seas, a wall of green water swept the deck of the Fleetwing and threw six of the eight men on watch overboard.
According to survivors and other participants, large swells swept over the Low Speed Chase before 3 p.m. near the island, sending all but one crew member overboard, Lynch said.
There's an alarming tendency in contemporary work to go overboard with hand movements in which dancers sweep their hands across their faces to create repetitive, meaningless gestures.
