(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.
Wrecked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wreck
Example Sentences:
(1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(4) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(5) The optimism is based on the ability of people, in the end, to see sense.” Shorten said the budget included large elements that the Labor party under his leadership could never support in the parliament, including pricing Australian children out of university and “wrecking Medicare”.
(6) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
(7) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(9) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(10) The government is also correct to say the current system is too complex; 1,300 pages of planning law are being used (understandably) by anyone who thinks a development project would wreck their view and damage the value of their house.
(11) We can do that but we can wreck the inquiry in the process,” the Conservative MP told Today.
(12) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(13) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(14) The mine will destroy the forests on which the Dongria Kondh depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area."
(15) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
(16) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(17) A healthy Neftali Feliz takes over the closer duties from Joe Nathan in Ron Washington’s pitching staff, one that was wrecked by injuries in 2013, something that has to change this time out.
(18) The bad press and everything that’s happened – it’s wrecked my life to a certain extent.
(19) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
(20) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.