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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That proposal has thus far run aground, though, due to its price tag, which Calatayud estimates at $100 million to $150 million annually.
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Such a change has already run aground with fiscal hawks in the House, who share the Senate antipathy toward congressional scorekeepers but are unwilling to completely disregard their rules.
—Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
On one of its trips near Lord Howe Island, the vessel ran aground near Neds Beach.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
In 2021, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the priceless painting had been kept on private display aboard bin Salman’s superyacht, Serene, a 439-foot-long, half-billion-dollar boat that had recently run aground in a navigational accident.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Such a change has already run aground with fiscal hawks in the House, who share the Senate antipathy toward congressional scorekeepers but are unwilling to completely disregard their rules.
—Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
On one of its trips near Lord Howe Island, the vessel ran aground near Neds Beach.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
In 2021, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the priceless painting had been kept on private display aboard bin Salman’s superyacht, Serene, a 439-foot-long, half-billion-dollar boat that had recently run aground in a navigational accident.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 5 Mar. 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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