How To Use run aground In A Sentence
- Over three days I managed to run aground twice, slam into a bridge and bump too many other boats to remember. The Sun
- According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London. Archive 2007-01-01
- There had been a storm, though, I think, and the ship had run aground on an island ruled by some sort of nasty feudal overlord.
- A Greek oil tanker has run aground.
- From Albany to Athens, all but the dimmest observers now recognize that the model we've been following has run aground—morally, socially and fiscally. After the Welfare State
- In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger.
- Like a chunk of glacier that has somehow run aground in the middle of downtown, it evokes the unconquerably primordial nature of the Pacific Northwest's landscape.
- With the ship run aground and the bow well out of the water, these would have been easy to salvage.
- In the birthplace of civilization, we have again run aground on the rocky shoals of nationalism, this time augmented by a religious fervor that increases the danger.
- Unfortunately it is on these rocky shoals that the commission is likely to run aground.
