aground
Example Sentences
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She co-founded a school for orphans, preserved and sold Hamilton’s papers, and commissioned a biographical project that kept running aground.
The 328-foot-long ferry smacked a vertical bundle of pilings, also called a dolphin, then nearly ran aground on the beach.
From Seattle Times
She added that more explosions were heard as the ship ran aground.
From BBC
Mr. Banks asked what would happen to a Navy captain of a ship that runs aground.
From Washington Times
It would take several more shipwrecks before a lighthouse was built here, in 1872, to keep other marine vessels from running aground en route to the Golden Gate.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
