Examples of 'run aground' in a sentence
Meaning of "run aground"
run aground: On a literal level, it refers to a ship or boat getting stuck on the ground in shallow water or on rocks. Figuratively, it means to become stuck or unable to make progress in a situation or endeavor
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- To be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
- To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
How to use "run aground" in a sentence
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I hope they run aground and drown.
The men are afraid we will run aground.
But we must run aground on a certain island.
But love will someday run aground.
We are run aground and spilling crude oil.
Another three tankers have run aground.
All of them run aground in their thirties.
I would not want my ship to run aground either.
We have run aground on a subspace sandbar.
This presidency has finally run aground.
With the ship run aground in the shallows.
It is time to change course before we run aground.
Gonna run aground at any minute.
Especially when your hormones are being run aground.
Run aground within the mist.
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Boats have even run aground in shallower waters.
We are drifting and might run aground.
Pirates run aground on an island.
And try not to run aground.
We have run aground on something.
The ship will run aground.
It was run aground and scuttled.
Except people whose ships have run aground.
Many ships have run aground near the island.
The one they did capture had run aground.
Run aground and scuttled.
Looks like we have run aground.
We had just run aground for our first time.
I thought we might have run aground.
A massive tanker has run aground on the central coastline.
That this vessel did not just run aground.
You may run aground.
It looked as if the series had finally run aground.
You have run aground.
Washed into the bay by a storm and run aground.
To run aground on a reef.
My ship will never run aground.
There is a cutter run aground over here on the east bay.
Some even thought the vessel had run aground.
We have run aground.
Ships trying to enter the old cut would run aground.
We might run aground.
An inexperienced captain and a windy day are all it takes to run aground.
Europe has run aground.
At the moment this social policy has completely run aground.
Before we run aground.
Incoming boat would mistake it for the lighthouse and run aground.
We must not run aground.
We want to prevent incalculable environmental disasters occurring when ships run aground.
We can still run aground.
