How to Use ungrounded in a Sentence

ungrounded

adjective

• But those planes can’t be delivered until the plane is ungrounded.
  — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• Seeing the end does help explain the shallowness and heady ungrounded slickness of the previous five episodes.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021
• That said, doing crown chakra work without balancing it with the root chakra can leave you feeling ungrounded.
  — Precious Lee, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
• In the best-case scenario, where the Max is ungrounded this summer, Boeing over the next couple of years will ship less than two-thirds of the huge volumes forecast before the onset of the pandemic.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
• Word had travelled like an ungrounded current around the small country and through the family’s large circle of friends; many people knew about Uri’s death before his parents did.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• In April, just months after the plane was ungrounded late last year, several major airlines took some of the planes out of service again due to a potential electrical issue.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
• What explains the different results for grounded and ungrounded items?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
• But even those cautious expectations are based on Boeing’s guidance that the plane will be ungrounded sometime this summer.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2020
• But Southwest’s board of directors is still committed to a review of its fleet strategy after the Max is ungrounded, Kelly said.
  — Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Accusations of espionage are often found to be erroneous and ungrounded in science, then dropped.
  — Alicia Lai, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2021
• Just months after the Boeing 737 Max was ungrounded following two fatal crashes, major airlines are taking some of the planes out of service again due to a potential electrical issue.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2021
• But now, scientists have found that windy conditions lessen the effect of St. Elmo’s Fire on ungrounded objects—primarily airplanes.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2020
• The title stems from one of her dad’s favorite Grateful Dead lyrics, shared during a text message poetry exchange that started when Chisholm felt particularly ungrounded in Australia.
  — Kat Bein, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2023
• So here’s an example of an ungrounded assumption that then becomes a source of comfort about longer term prospects, that simply has no good basis in scientific experience.
  — Richard Tofel, ProPublica, 26 Mar. 2012
• Management is so amorphous that the workers’ perspectives feel arbitrary and ungrounded.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• But certain ungrounded metal surfaces can be charged by air relative humidity (RH) alone.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2020
• But this understanding of the root causes of informality and the benefits of formalization is ungrounded.
  — Mike Rogan, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
• Muilenburg repeatedly expressed intentions to stay until the Max was ungrounded.
  — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• In a country where few had clean water, adequate sanitation, or immunity to the disease, experts knew the waterborne infection could rip through the island like lightning through an ungrounded swimming pool.
  — Jonathan M. Katz, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
• But poetry has an unusually large and ungrounded metaphoric scope.
  — David Orr, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• During a rainy soundcheck prior to a 1972 concert, Harvey was electrocuted on stage after touching a microphone that was connected to an ungrounded amplifier.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 June 2017
• The problem, which is unrelated to the Takata airbag-inflator recalls, involves inadvertent deployment of ungrounded driver’s-side airbags without warning.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2017
• Ideas like Fuller’s—optimistic, far-reaching, ungrounded in politics and material reality—can do anything and everything, this book insists.
  — Rebecca Onion, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
• Even Reddit is helping Trump successfully spread ungrounded conspiracies about ballot-stuffing in Arizona.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024