(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.
Maroon
Definition:
(n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
(v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.
(a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
(n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
(n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(2) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(5) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(6) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(7) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(8) Mutants of the maroon-like complex, representative of the five known complementation classes, were subjected to fine structure mapping experiments utilizing a nutritional selective procedure which permits the survival of rare ma-l(+) progeny from large-scale crosses.
(9) The amount of retrodisplacement was greatest with Kennerdell-Maroon or four-wall decompression and the least with lateral wall decompression.
(10) Plus her parents recently moved back to Carlisle from Harrogate, and will be able to help with childcare if she ends up marooned in Westminster during the week.
(11) "He had a strange life, marooned inside communist East Germany in his west Berlin apartment just a stone's throw from where his hero Christopher Isherwood had once lived, and surrounded by expressionist art, bars and other musicians and artists," says Tobias Rüther, author of Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin .
(12) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(13) Layali has spent her entire life marooned on this colonial holdover, which is not equipped for refugees.
(14) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
(15) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).
(16) Neutrophils stained dark maroon and contained green granules, eosinophils contained bright blue granules, basophils revealed yellow and pink granules, and monocytes stained green with green and yellow vacuoles.
(17) Parents are no longer marooned at home, waiting for cultural news to reach them several weeks later.
(18) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(19) Parents risk being taken in by someone's promises, only to find their children suddenly marooned.
(20) Snowden has since fled Hong Kong for Moscow, where he is reportedly marooned while resisting US attempts to extradite him to face charges under the Espionage Act.