How to Use aground in a Sentence

aground

adverb or adjective

• Several dozen people have perished in their attempts, including the eight killed when a boat carrying some 60 people ran aground on rocks late Saturday.
  — Jill Lawless and Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• But the tools of the New Deal order ran aground in the 1970s.
  — Alan Green / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024
• In 1816, the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the coast of West Africa.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• The Coast Guard said the boat ran aground in the area of Pogibshi Point.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2018
• Here was the cove where the Frolic went aground 170 years ago.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• 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 Barker wasn't the only ship that ran aground in 2023.
  — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
• The crew forced the ship back into the port, this time running it aground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• If that happens, even the smartest plan could run aground.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Four boats that had been used to take supplies from the platform to the shore got tossed about and ran aground.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• When the Northguider ran aground, nearly a week had passed by the time a crew arrived to assess the wreck.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• That tops the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, the infamous tanker that ran aground in Alaska in 1989.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• A couple days before the purchase, one boat ran aground and got 19 cracks in the hull.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2024
• The bulk carrier ran aground on a coral reef two weeks ago.
  — Andrew Meldrum, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• Their running game had run aground, Ben missed the week of practice.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 16 Nov. 2020
• The secret is to find that little ribbon of wind and stay in it but don't run aground.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
• What's more, the Artemis wasn't doomed but instead had run aground up the coast and at least part of its crew survived.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2017
• The first houses in Stiltsville were boats purposely run aground in the shallow sea grass in the 1930s.
  — Bonnie Gross, sun-sentinel.com, 20 June 2019
• But now some of those waterway dreams seem set to run aground.
  — CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
• The anchor line broke five days later and the boat ran aground near Harding Street.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• 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, ajc, 9 Jan. 2023
• The Glory wasn’t the first vessel to run aground in the crucial waterway.
  — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024