How to Use jettison in a Sentence

jettison

verb
  • The captain gave orders to jettison the cargo.
  • We should jettison these old computers and get new ones.
  • They jettisoned the fuel and made an emergency landing.
  • They jettisoned plans for a vacation.
  • But the footage showed there was a problem with one of the springs that helps jettison the heatshield.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The hotel was sold in 2021, and Vogel was hired the next year to keep what works and jettison the rest.
    — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Parts of two or three propane tanks jettisoned 50 feet away.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
  • After all, none of the shows simply jettison the white guy.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • To achieve his aims, the Russian president has jettisoned any remnants of the rule of law.
    — Catherine Belton, Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • Why jettison the one thing that most UK citizens can agree on?
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In an emergency, the pilot can jettison all the weight to rise to the surface more quickly.
    — Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • It’s designed to jettison the capsule away from the exploding core stage and steer it out of the path of the ailing rocket.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Friday had seemed to jettison many of the traits that have seemed to suggest an early arrival of spring.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2023
  • If the court is willing to jettison a key ingredient of the Roe case, there is no reason to think the justices won't be ready to ditch the rest.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 17 May 2021
  • The streamer originally had the rights to the film before jettisoning the project in a wave of cost-cutting.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Almost as notable are the projects that Netflix has passed on or jettisoned.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Having now witnessed Jonathan's mastery on both two legs and four, the tribe had to decide whether to jettison him from the game or get rid of the other big threat in Hai.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 May 2022
  • Some give up their souls and still others reinvent themselves, hoping to jettison the past.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • None of them, however, have jettisoned Nielsen to the extent Allen Media Group has.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This is the second year that Sundance has been forced to jettison its in-person plans because of the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The third engine is used to jettison the launch abort system, which occurs shortly after launch if all goes well.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The components of the big Saturn V rocket fell into the ocean or were jettisoned into deep space.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • If the submersible is equipped with a drop weight, the crew could jettison that load — potentially allowing the vessel to float to the surface.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • After their World Series curse was lifted, the Cubs faded away and jettisoned their stars.
    — Scott Miller, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Still, in economic terms, the cost of even a half-week trip to Disney World was a month’s worth of some other jettisoned yet epic adventure.
    — Noah Lederman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But the duo are also too reluctant to jettison the components that no longer serve a purpose.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • After burnout, the SRBs would be jettisoned into the ocean to be recovered, refurbished and reused.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
  • You jettison those that fail and start building a portfolio of success and fail stories.
    — John Sabo, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • In contemplating whether to jettison the cardinal rule of past Mideast diplomacy, Mr. Biden may take encouragement from a 21st-century subclause.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Our main motivation for jettisoning gas appliances was the blinking light on our air purifier.
    — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024

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