Sentence example with the word 'aground'

aground

anchored, caught, fastened, grounded, high and dry, jammed, on the rocks, shipwrecked, stuck fast, tied, wrecked

Definition adv. with the bottom lodged on the ground

Last update: September 15, 2015

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The tanker went aground.   [Please select]

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Passing the first of these vessels with terrific broadsides, the "Merrimac" rammed the "Cumberland" and then turned her fire again on the "Congress," which in an attempt to escape ran aground and was there under fire from three other Confederate gun-boats which had meanwhile joined the "Merrimac."   [Please select]

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Evidently the _Kate_ had not run aground, nor were there any submerged reefs in that quarter.   [Please select]

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"The boat would have been aground in a minute more."   [Please select]

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Johns four hours before us is aground, and can't get off.   [Please select]

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We found the other boat aground, in the very worst way.   [Please select]

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He did not do so, however, possibly fearing to run his ships aground.   [Please select]

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His face lighted up wonderfully when he saw the _Skyrocket_ aground and the two boys safe.   [Please select]

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I was hoping he would run aground, but he succeeded in making the Bay without accident.   [Please select]

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Where'd she get aground.   [Please select]

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"My boat got aground down here."   [Please select]

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