aground

Example Sentences

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Then she wrote a pilot for a different series with Olivia Colman, but it too ran aground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Even if the yield provision moves forward, there are significant risks where the Clarity Act runs aground on unrelated issues.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

However, the Senate’s version of the bill ran aground after lawmakers planned to include the yield ban.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

She co-founded a school for orphans, preserved and sold Hamilton’s papers, and commissioned a biographical project that kept running aground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

I kept going, but toward the head of the creek, a marsh taken over by a patch of tall phragmites warned of shallow water, and I turned the boat around, not wanting to run aground.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings