Sentence examples for throw him overboard from inspiring English sources

These days, a congressman's colleagues will throw him overboard in a second.

They put him in a kind of duffelbag, a sack, and throw him overboard.

The Democrats, Mr. Rothenberg said, "want to throw him overboard without actually throwing him overboard".

Unfortunately for Alesi, he has other liabilities — more on those later — and he knows that some in his own party, not just the Conservatives, would like to throw him overboard.

Back in 1845 on the Cambria, as the attackers surrounded Douglass, threatening to throw him overboard, he told the other white passengers that if they didn't believe his words, he would speak the words of the enslavers.

Giles "threatened to throw him overboard unless he did something about it".

The notion of throwing him overboard would seem very strange.

Said we'd never make it to Asia, and the captain threw him overboard.

"They threw him overboard as an example to the rest of us.

They beat him up and then tied him and threw him overboard, despite the struggle and cries of his wife.

In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real-estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard.