aground
adverb or adjective
1
: on the ground
planes aloft and aground
2
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
a ship run aground
Examples of aground in a Sentence
the villagers came to stare at the foreign ship that was aground on their beach and at the strangely dressed sailors on board
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The ship eventually ran aground and became stranded on a limestone outcropping on Spider Island.
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Denise Chow, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2025
Saturday that the Discovery ran aground approximately 60 feet outside Kewalo Basin Harbor.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In early May, a 300-meter-long container ship ran aground in the Red Sea reportedly because of GPS interference.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
The impact of the crash caused the vessel to catapult into the Shinnecock Canal wall, bounce off it and then slam into another section of the jetty before ultimately running aground on the sand.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
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Denise Chow, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2025
Saturday that the Discovery ran aground approximately 60 feet outside Kewalo Basin Harbor.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In early May, a 300-meter-long container ship ran aground in the Red Sea reportedly because of GPS interference.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
The impact of the crash caused the vessel to catapult into the Shinnecock Canal wall, bounce off it and then slam into another section of the jetty before ultimately running aground on the sand.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for aground
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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aground
adverb or adjective
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
the ship ran aground
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