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  • Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic.†  (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 first stage depleted its fuel, and the booster coasted for a fraction of a second as it jettisoned stage clamps via explosive bolts.†  (source)
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  • It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged.†  (source)
  • Worst-case scenario, we jettison the section on Björck.†  (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)
  • The smell that hits us as we enter nearly jettisons me backward—out the door, through time, back to fourth grade.†  (source)
  • My Doc Martens had been jettisoned in favor of beautiful handmade black suede heels.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They had hot-water bottles that they would jettison as soon as the heat dissipated, vacuum bottles of hot tea, and meat sandwiches.†  (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)
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