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.
A South Korean passenger ferry carrying 246 passengers and 21 crew has run aground on rocks off the country's south-east coast.
From BBC
But much of the film’s popularity probably stemmed from that reliable magnet of interest, schadenfreude, as the Siegels’ dream of living like American royalty ran aground when the Great Recession hit.
It was one of nine ships in the country's small naval fleet, and had been surveying an area of sea floor that had not been mapped in decades when it ran aground.
From BBC
The desire of many fire survivors to return to their homes ran aground amid the challenges.
From Los Angeles Times
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