How to Use aground in a Sentence

aground

adverb or adjective

• What's more, the Artemis wasn't doomed but instead had run aground up the coast and at least part of its crew survived.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2017
• The Coast Guard said the boat ran aground in the area of Pogibshi Point.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2018
• An early attempt ran aground when a Kickstarter fundraising campaign fell short.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• The Frasers inquire as to the Artemis which, conveniently, ran aground just four miles away.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2017
• The ship chartered to carry them north ran aground off the coast of Canada and was too severely damaged to travel further.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
• That depicts a calamity of three years earlier, when the Méduse , a French naval frigate, ran aground off the West African coast.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Energy Future Holdings ran aground due to low natural gas prices that made company debt unsustainable.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Because the sea route squeezes through such a tight gap between Antarctica and South America, Clarke wonders if even the slight bulge could cause the path to run aground.
  — David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 30 Apr. 2018
• When talks ran aground and the company severely curtailed pay and benefits to gain leverage, the flight attendants responded with an innovative work stoppage campaign.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 27 July 2024
• But the tools of the New Deal order ran aground in the 1970s.
  — Alan Green / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024
• In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Here was the cove where the Frolic went aground 170 years ago.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• The third route, through the Suez Canal, was briefly blocked last year when a tanker ran aground.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• The Barker wasn't the only ship that ran aground in 2023.
  — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
• The crew forced the ship back into the port, this time running it aground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• If that happens, even the smartest plan could run aground.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• The ship ran aground near the southeast point of Green Island.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• The Coast Guard has not said what caused the Ever Forward to run aground.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• Schwarz’s risky staging seems to run aground in the final opera.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Four boats that had been used to take supplies from the platform to the shore got tossed about and ran aground.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• When the Northguider ran aground, nearly a week had passed by the time a crew arrived to assess the wreck.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• That tops the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, the infamous tanker that ran aground in Alaska in 1989.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• The bulk carrier ran aground on a coral reef two weeks ago.
  — Andrew Meldrum, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• Their running game had run aground, Ben missed the week of practice.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 16 Nov. 2020
• The secret is to find that little ribbon of wind and stay in it but don't run aground.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
• The first houses in Stiltsville were boats purposely run aground in the shallow sea grass in the 1930s.
  — Bonnie Gross, sun-sentinel.com, 20 June 2019
• But now some of those waterway dreams seem set to run aground.
  — CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
• The anchor line broke five days later and the boat ran aground near Harding Street.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• The Warren Sawyer struck a shoal near the island and ran aground on its south shore, Schwanfelder said.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• The ship ran aground outside the shipping channel two weeks ago.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024