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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After a months-long journey, the boat ran aground off Rockaway Beach on June 6, 1993, forcing the dozens of immigrants onboard to try to swim ashore.
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Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
The secret is to find that little ribbon of wind and stay in it but don't run aground.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
In May, similar conditions forced a two-week pause in operations after the pier broke apart and four U.S. Army vessels ran aground, injuring three service members, one critically.
—Leo Correa and Ami Bentov, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2024
But the tools of the New Deal order ran aground in the 1970s.
—Alan Green / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024
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Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
The secret is to find that little ribbon of wind and stay in it but don't run aground.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
In May, similar conditions forced a two-week pause in operations after the pier broke apart and four U.S. Army vessels ran aground, injuring three service members, one critically.
—Leo Correa and Ami Bentov, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2024
But the tools of the New Deal order ran aground in the 1970s.
—Alan Green / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024
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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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