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 boat, a 33-foot Chris-Craft Roamer, ran aground in the sand just behind the rock wall between MooSa's restaurant and McKinley Marina on Oct. 13.
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Marvel’s big plan to build its 2020s around Jonathan Majors’s Kang ran aground on real-world legal issues, not to mention the meh box-office gross of his big-screen debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
—Darren Franich, Vulture, 31 July 2024
Judging by the new Validated Insights report, in the year and change since two of the big four OPMs quit or ran aground, things may have actually gotten worse.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The vessel lost power and ran aground on Saturday evening one nautical mile off the southern coast of the Samoan island of Upolu.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Marvel’s big plan to build its 2020s around Jonathan Majors’s Kang ran aground on real-world legal issues, not to mention the meh box-office gross of his big-screen debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
—Darren Franich, Vulture, 31 July 2024
Judging by the new Validated Insights report, in the year and change since two of the big four OPMs quit or ran aground, things may have actually gotten worse.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The vessel lost power and ran aground on Saturday evening one nautical mile off the southern coast of the Samoan island of Upolu.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 22 Nov. 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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