How to Use aground in a Sentence

aground

adverb or adjective

• In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• 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 crew forced the ship back into the port, this time running it aground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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
• But now some of those waterway dreams seem set to run aground.
  — CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Some joke that the lighthouse was a fail because a boat ran aground anyway.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2022
• The Glory wasn’t the first vessel to run aground in the crucial waterway.
  — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• The Glory wasn't the first vessel to run aground in the crucial waterway.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 9 Jan. 2023
• Officials have not said what caused the vessel to run aground.
  — NBC News, 9 Sep. 2021
• When the waters are low, the heavy boats, laden with metal and with foodstuffs, run aground on the sandbanks of the river.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• In 1682 a royal ship carrying the heir to the English throne ran aground and sank off the Norfolk Coast.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
• Many ghost ships sink or run aground in shallow waters.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The Celtics went 4-1 in their next five games before running aground against the Cavaliers last night.
  — Hunter Felt, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• Tugboats began racing to the scene almost as soon as the ship ran aground, trying to pull it free.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• Zelien said, referring to the tanker that ran aground in 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled millions of gallons.
  — Fox News, 29 Oct. 2021
• These advisories were not in place Saturday night, when the Red Baron ran aground.
  — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• The vessel ran aground in March, blocking the crucial waterway for six days.
  — Samy Magdy, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• In the United States, the efforts to combat it have run aground on First Amendment protections of free speech.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The 41-foot boat ran aground in the east jetty outbound, the Coast Guard said on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• At its best, the album swells with an oceanic pulse, conveying a band that looked aground in 2015 and just now righting course.
  — Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2021
• Beginning at noon, five tugboats spent more than five hours pushing and pulling the ship, the largest to ever run aground in the Chesapeake Bay.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2022
• Four years later, not too far from Providence, the British customs boat Gaspee ran aground.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• In fall 2022, near-historic low river levels caused barges to run aground on the lower river.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• If a vessel was in distress, running aground on a sandy beach was rarely an option, as there were few such beaches to speak of.
  — Longreads, 4 May 2023
• While the Wager was navigating this traffic, her keel ran aground on a shoal.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The canal, the main waterway for Gulf exports to the West, was paralyzed early this year when a massive tanker ran aground there.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024