How to Use ungrounded in a Sentence

ungrounded

adjective

• But those planes can’t be delivered until the plane is ungrounded.
  — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• That said, doing crown chakra work without balancing it with the root chakra can leave you feeling ungrounded.
  — Precious Lee, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
• But the bigger problem is that the performances are ungrounded.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Seeing the end does help explain the shallowness and heady ungrounded slickness of the previous five episodes.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021
• What explains the different results for grounded and ungrounded items?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
• This ungrounded area is forbidden for Palestinians to return to.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
• As we are never returned to any figural baseline, our eyes are increasingly ungrounded.
  — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
• But even those cautious expectations are based on Boeing’s guidance that the plane will be ungrounded sometime this summer.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2020
• Accusations of espionage are often found to be erroneous and ungrounded in science, then dropped.
  — Alicia Lai, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2021
• But poetry has an unusually large and ungrounded metaphoric scope.
  — David Orr, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• Management is so amorphous that the workers’ perspectives feel arbitrary and ungrounded.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Word had travelled like an ungrounded current around the small country and through the family’s large circle of friends; many people knew about Uri’s death before his parents did.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• This can happen if there is faulty underwater wiring or lighting, malfunctions with ungrounded equipment like pumps or filters, or overloaded circuits.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 2 July 2024
• In April, just months after the plane was ungrounded late last year, several major airlines took some of the planes out of service again due to a potential electrical issue.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
• But certain ungrounded metal surfaces can be charged by air relative humidity (RH) alone.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2020
• So here’s an example of an ungrounded assumption that then becomes a source of comfort about longer term prospects, that simply has no good basis in scientific experience.
  — Richard Tofel, ProPublica, 26 Mar. 2012
• Electrical systems in homes built before modern code updates can include outdated panels, ungrounded outlets or aluminum wiring — all worth flagging.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
• Muilenburg repeatedly expressed intentions to stay until the Max was ungrounded.
  — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• When the play reaches its climax, a moment of haunted stage trickery that’s supposed to thrill and engage us ends up feeling ungrounded and, in its aftermath, bizarrely underacknowledged.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
• But Southwest’s board of directors is still committed to a review of its fleet strategy after the Max is ungrounded, Kelly said.
  — Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• But this understanding of the root causes of informality and the benefits of formalization is ungrounded.
  — Mike Rogan, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
• This includes 1950s or older stereo systems, radios, lamps, appliances, heaters, fans, and any other pieces with their original wiring and/or ungrounded plugs.
  — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
• In the best-case scenario, where the Max is ungrounded this summer, Boeing over the next couple of years will ship less than two-thirds of the huge volumes forecast before the onset of the pandemic.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
• One $5 cable—since discontinued on Amazon—has no shielding, an ungrounded and non-reinforced shell, rubber strain relief, and has the pins running straight to the wires, with no board in between.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• In a country where few had clean water, adequate sanitation, or immunity to the disease, experts knew the waterborne infection could rip through the island like lightning through an ungrounded swimming pool.
  — Jonathan M. Katz, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
• Besides being an agency invention ungrounded in the statute, disparate impact liability stands antidiscrimination law on its head.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Apr. 2025
• Ideas like Fuller’s—optimistic, far-reaching, ungrounded in politics and material reality—can do anything and everything, this book insists.
  — Rebecca Onion, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
• Balle is so unbelievably good at rooting her narrator down into exorbitant details in the midst of an utterly ungrounded premise (being stuck in November 18th).
  — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
• The problem, which is unrelated to the Takata airbag-inflator recalls, involves inadvertent deployment of ungrounded driver’s-side airbags without warning.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2017
• The resulting management overhead — spending elite engineering time correcting outputs and paying the high token costs of ungrounded prompts — eventually outweighs the initial speed of creation.
  — Mohith Shrivastava, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026