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 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.
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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
The rules are designed to prevent incidents like the near-disaster involving the Viking Sky in 2019, when the ship lost all engine power during a storm and came perilously close to running aground with 1,373 people aboard.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
While out sailing just before the Zaida’s first official patrol, Arnall had tried to cut a corner around a channel buoy and ended up running the boat aground.
—David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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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
The rules are designed to prevent incidents like the near-disaster involving the Viking Sky in 2019, when the ship lost all engine power during a storm and came perilously close to running aground with 1,373 people aboard.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
While out sailing just before the Zaida’s first official patrol, Arnall had tried to cut a corner around a channel buoy and ended up running the boat aground.
—David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 30 Jan. 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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