stranded
Example Sentences
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First, there was the paralysis of flights through some of the busiest airspace in the world, leaving aircraft at major hub airports grounded and hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.
From BBC
She didn’t want the children, both U.S. citizens, to be stranded.
From Salon
The disruption has removed hundreds of millions of barrels from global supply, while shipping traffic through the strait has collapsed and thousands of seafarers remain stranded.
From Salon
He said authorities were trying to rescue people stranded by floodwaters.
Seafarers stuck in the Gulf say they are rationing food and water and anxiously hoping supplies will get through Iran's blockade in the war that has stranded them for three weeks.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
