(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidents allegedly occurred after Australian authorities were called to assist an asylum seeker boat that ran aground on an island near Darwin on New Year’s Day, and towed back to Indonesia, as part of the Abbott government’s policy of “turning back the boats”.
(2) Yet even after Buzz ran aground, the row with Facebook went on - and in retrospect, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg didn't trust Google not to be trying to build its own social network and using Facebook's social graph to do it.
(3) The 114,000-tonne ship ran aground off the shore of Giglio on 13 January 2012.
(4) As we all remember, Shell’s mishaps in 2012 culminated with its drilling rig running aground.
(5) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
(6) There is also the ever-present possibility of a coal ship running aground on the reef.
(7) Chelsea's title challenge has run aground south of the river.
(8) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(9) Meanwhile, a fragile wooden boat with more than 80 people aboard ran aground off the Aegean island of Rhodes.
(10) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
(11) Le Week-end rolls in to remind us that dreams run aground and what's happening now is all that matters.
(12) Below is Tate Hill Sands, where the ship carrying Dracula ran aground, its crew missing, its dead skipper lashed to the wheel.
(13) The stricken Shell oil vessel that ran aground near an uninhabited Alaskan island on new year's eve has been refloated and is being towed to a sheltered cove where the damage can be assessed.
(14) From Brexit to Trump, on both sides of the Atlantic populism has run aground | Rafael Behr Read more However, May did not raise the US president’s comments about London mayor, Sadiq Khan, and in the formal bilateral did not raise Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, despite the issue causing tension between countries in drawing up the G20 communique.
(15) Europe’s worsening migrant crisis – the Guardian briefing Read more In another incident on Monday at least three people died when a boat ran aground off the Greek island of Rhodes.
(16) The Royal Dutch Shell ship, the Kulluk, which was used in the Arctic last summer, ran aground on Monday on a sand and gravel shore off an uninhabited island near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska.
(17) We are in a severe security situation, and if you are in a public place that is security-sensitive, I’m afraid you have got to show your face.” Diane James The deputy party chair is considered the most likely winner , after former frontrunner Steven Woolfe’s candidacy ran aground .
(18) A South African yachtsman held captive by Somali pirates for several days has escaped after the hijacked vessel ran aground, but two of his fellow hostages have been taken on to the mainland.
(19) September 18, 2013 10.55am BST Boris: UK economy had reached its 'Costa Concordia' moment Boris Johnson has claimed that Britain's economy has reached its " Costa Concordia " moment -- a reference to the Italian cruise ship which ran aground last year and was dramatically refloated this week .
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The rescue operation on Rhodes after a vessel carrying migrants ran aground on Monday.
Ashore
Definition:
(adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the advances in the conservative management of surgical emergencies over the last 20 years medical hazards at sea are relatively few and do not differ significantly from those experienced ashore.
(2) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(3) As his plane landed, more than 160 Eritreans were coming ashore in the port, the latest of almost 8,000 arrivals on Italy's southern coasts so far this year, according to UN figures.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view of the museum from the air The name Arken means The Arc, as the building was originally meant to be built on the beach resembling a large ship washed ashore.
(5) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(6) A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials have said.
(7) This year the MCS is already receiving reports of tens of thousands of toothbrushes being washed ashore from Southampton to Scotland.
(8) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(9) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(10) Some 25,000 residents – 10% of his constituents – have been displaced, and nearly 2,000 killed, with gruesome reminders of the tragedy becoming ever more apparent every day: this week a second mass burial site was dug to accommodate the growing number of corpses found washed ashore or from the mounds of debris that line the city's streets and canals.
(11) "It would seem that the French were successful in preventing the bulk of this very large oil mass from coming ashore," the MBA researchers concluded.
(12) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
(13) About 95% will probably never come ashore and is destined for that massive swirl of floating plastic known as the north Pacific garbage patch.
(14) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(15) "For every pirate that goes to legal finish there are three or four that end up being put back ashore.
(16) The introduction of strict weight control guidelines in the American Navy has drawn attention to a theory that obese sailors lose weight more readily at sea than ashore.
(17) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
(18) We can imagine swarms of terrorists charging ashore off the Dover ferry, but it would make more sense putting Dad’s Army back in uniform and issuing teachers with machine guns.
(19) But Savitz says that most of the birds and fish die from the spill out to sea and will not wash ashore, never to be seen, let alone counted.
(20) Duplication of the monitors has been provided in the “Salvage Room” ashore, where all the other engineers and technicians will follow the operation and be able to provide assistance if and when the need arises.