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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Deep Thought ran aground just behind the rock wall near MooSa's restaurant on Oct. 13 when the boat's owners ran out of gas.
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Then in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, the U.S. Coast Guard asked him to help write new pollution regulations.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Dolphins and human boaters alike regularly run aground there, said Brian Sharp, marine mammal rescue team director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
That incident, considered among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, saw 11 million gallons of oil spilled into Alaska’s Prince William Sound after an oil tanker ran aground.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Then in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, the U.S. Coast Guard asked him to help write new pollution regulations.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Dolphins and human boaters alike regularly run aground there, said Brian Sharp, marine mammal rescue team director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
That incident, considered among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, saw 11 million gallons of oil spilled into Alaska’s Prince William Sound after an oil tanker ran aground.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 27 Dec. 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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