jettisonin a sentence
- The policy is to jettison excess fuel prior to landing on the carrier.
- The seas were so rough, the captain jettisoned some of the cargo to better stabilize the ship.
- Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic.† (source)
- His survival instinct told him to jettison the canister right now.† (source)
- The first stage depleted its fuel, and the booster coasted for a fraction of a second as it jettisoned stage clamps via explosive bolts.† (source)
- Ten peculiar children and one peculiar bird were made to fit in just three stout rowboats, with much being jettisoned and left behind on the dock.† (source)
- It turned out that he had departed Camp Four carrying both a backpack and an oxygen bottle; he later told me that although he didn't intend to use the gas, he wanted to have a bottle handy in the d he needed it higher on the peak, event that "his power was low" an Upon reaching the Balcony, however, he jettisoned the pack and gave his oxygen canister, mask, and regulator to Beidleman to carry for him.† (source)
- The smell that hits us as we enter nearly jettisons me backward—out the door, through time, back to fourth grade.† (source)
- With a huge heave, he jettisoned the lot into the suspended night.† (source)
- The cops grouped the boys together, lined them up against a fence, and demanded to know which of them had jettisoned the bag, which later turned out to be filled with quinine, not heroin.† (source)
- These articles, he claimed, caused him to abandon the plan and to jettison all hope of ever succeeding at such a scheme in the future.† (source)
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- It had jettisoned four thousand years of memories like so much ballast.† (source)
- In Ayemenem they danced to jettison their humiliation in the Heart of Darkness.† (source)
- When I let Nathaniel know how worried I am about his safety, he tells me to relax, assuring me he has jettisoned enough of his belongings to make room for the new violin and cello on his buggy and keep them covered.† (source)
- He looked at me then like I was an object to be jettisoned if necessary.† (source)
- First of all, I said, no self-respecting freedom fighter would take orders from the government he is fighting against or jettison a longtime ally in the interest of pleasing an antagonist.† (source)
- Now it was the old man who wanted to stick with Vic and Roger and it was the kid (by this time forty years old) who wanted to jettison them, arguing with some logic that it would be madness to hand their account over to a two-bit ad agency six hundred miles north of the New York pulsebeat.† (source)
- By jettisoning the Under 15 team, Luma still wouldn't have time for herself exactly, but she could focus her energies on the kids who were reciprocating her commitment to the Fugees.† (source)
- My Doc Martens had been jettisoned in favor of beautiful handmade black suede heels.† (source)
- The captain claimed to have had a fire aboard, but photographs taken by naval reconnaissance aircraft—ours and Japanese—did not show smoke or fire-damaged debris being jettisoned from the submarine.† (source)
- He likes the way seagulls swoop down on garbage mounds and trail after ships waiting for the glint of jettison at the bow.† (source)
- Robert Leader could not suppress a smile of glee as he spotted two large drop-tanks—jettisoned fuel tanks from Navy planes.† (source)
- Would amnesty be granted because people jettisoned by the regime (and therefore themselves potential political prisoners) request it of the president?† (source)
- Worst-case scenario, we jettison the section on Björck.† (source)
- They had hot-water bottles that they would jettison as soon as the heat dissipated, vacuum bottles of hot tea, and meat sandwiches.† (source)
- In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation.† (source)
- Because the plane could carry only a small load, I was forced to jettison some of my "desiderata," including the useless canoe-cum-bathtub.† (source)
- In the warm night the room grew hotter and hotter, coats and ties were jettisoned at an early stage, and the gramophone went on working through an enormous pile of records, half of which Peter had borrowed for the evening.† (source)
- As stains and stench accumulated, the restaurant's manager built a chute on the roof and threatened to jettison the garbage directly onto Olmsted's precious lawns.† (source)
- The "reserve" drums had been taken aboard for his return trip to Churchill and I thought it rather reckless of him to jettison them, but since he was in command I let him have his way.† (source)
- If he didn't know better, that is at first glance, he could have sworn that the thing resembled nothing more than an enormous quivering … And then the thing exploded, jettisoning an amazing amount of tunnel waste directly at the unfortunate manservant!† (source)
- Just like he jettisoned his parents when they were of no use to him, he's dropping me because I don't fit in his new life.† (source)
- Yes, I understood the invitation to madness and the jettison of reason and the escape from the clogs of convention in surrender to the unbridled surge of spirit and fantasy.† (source)
- It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged.† (source)
- Seemingly, all supervision had been jettisoned.† (source)
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