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 latter vessel ran aground in the 19th century on the small German island of Süderoogsand in the Wadden Sea.
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Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
One of the tankers ran aground, and the other simply broke in two; both had been in operation for around 50 years.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
After three ships ran aground on the reef in just 18 days, provoking national outcry, Congress created the nation’s largest marine sanctuary in 1990 — a 2,800-square-mile swath from Dry Tortugas to Key Biscayne christened the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
The old ayatollah’s project has evidently run aground—and Iran’s pragmatists have fresh wind in their sails.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
One of the tankers ran aground, and the other simply broke in two; both had been in operation for around 50 years.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
After three ships ran aground on the reef in just 18 days, provoking national outcry, Congress created the nation’s largest marine sanctuary in 1990 — a 2,800-square-mile swath from Dry Tortugas to Key Biscayne christened the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
The old ayatollah’s project has evidently run aground—and Iran’s pragmatists have fresh wind in their sails.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 8 Feb. 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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