(1) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(2) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
(3) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
(4) Even the agency admits, though, that there is much more work to do before everyone agrees with the judges at the International River Foundation , especially on the Thames's many urban and suburban tributaries – some of which still flow spasmodically through concrete pipes or over shopping trolleys and other modern jetsam.
(5) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
(6) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
(7) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.
Overboard
Definition:
(adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) A traveler can go overboard in an attempt to avoid diarrheal illness.
(2) His announcement came hours after the Daily Telegraph reported the coaching allegations under the headline “Truth overboard”.
(3) People tend to get carried away, that’s going overboard completely,” Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka told the Guardian.
(4) With the captaincy, especially in England, we maybe go a bit overboard on it.
(5) Even today's chucking overboard of chairman Marcus Agius smacks of a firm doing the least it can, and hoping it doesn't have to do any more.
(6) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
(7) 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.
(8) The owner’s wife threatened to throw her passport overboard so she’d never see her family again.’ The next morning I saw her with her hands around the same girl’s throat.
(9) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
(10) 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.
(11) Towards the end of her time at sea, Azima saw an old man jump overboard after days of not eating or drinking.
(12) But by the time they had reached Hungary, prosperity was a distant memory and most of their possessions had gone, some stolen, others thrown overboard during the treacherouscrossing between Turkey and Greece.
(13) Several witnesses, including Fasher, say the boat was intercepted by Australian authorities after asylum seekers called for help when four passengers were washed overboard by an enormous wave.
(14) 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.
(15) ISS may recommend against ‘overboarded’ directors,” the advisory service said.
(16) "All of the camera equipment went overboard, and we were in the water, Leo, and everyone, and this incredibly heavy stuff was just being hurled about on eight-foot waves."
(17) And they knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom; and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges.
(18) 36 That or there was one guy in every 100 who went massively overboard and bought 22 backups.
(19) "They need to be governed themselves because at times they go overboard on the rights."
(20) Italy’s coast guard was also searching the waters between Libya and Sicily after 107 survivors rescued from an overcrowded dinghy told authorities about 20 people had fallen overboard and their smugglers would not stop to pick them up.