Sentence examples for to fall overboard from inspiring English sources

I take the tiller and try not to fall overboard.

A Coast Guard spokesman, Eric Chandler, said conditions were not particularly bad at 11.30pm on Saturday when the man tumbled into the water and it was unclear what caused him to fall overboard.

Waves battered Bravoure, causing all three masts to fall overboard and the ship to became a total wreck.

You get a whole flotilla of them banging against one side of a warship at night, in perfect synchronization--well, it might not tip the ship over, but it could rock it a lot, causing personnel on the bridge to fall overboard, leading to the loss of American lives.

The water is an incredibly cold-looking turquoise color, and it seems that if I were to bestonedly fall overboard I would have about 45 seconds to thrash around before dying of acute hypothermia and having my corpse swallowed by a whale.

Then he propped a wooden dummy with a dress on it on the deck and planned to have it fall overboard in the presence of witnesses so that it would look as though the woman had accidentally drowned.

Occasionally, shipping containers fall overboard, while damage can occur to goods at any stage of transit due to rough handling and other mishaps.

Perhaps it will be Berlusconi's Italy who will fall overboard first and have to rediscover the lira.

Her job, she recalled, "was to stay out of the way and not fall overboard".

Over the next five days (with one day off for good behaviour, which we use to tour the island – of which more later) I reckon I capsize, fall overboard and generally hit the surf more than a hundred times.

Edward sent him on a Yorkist expedition to France in 1475, and the duke was reported to have fallen overboard and drowned without any witnesses.