Sentence examples for Once stranded from inspiring English sources

Once stranded in the ocean, the wreck slowly began what appeared to be a trek inland.

Dennis King is one of her intimate friends, and they were once stranded in England together.

He helped to change the climate of ideas on the left and in doing so he helped to drag his once stranded party back towards what he regarded as the vital centre.

Dr. Bengtson, a gynecologist who lives in Boston, said that she was once stranded because of a snowstorm, and it took two days for the airline to rebook her.

Thanks to a UNICEF-supported maternal health programme, women giving birth in Humla's remote villages – who were once stranded without access to essential medical care – now have new options and facer fewer risks.

AFTER spending days deciphering a monkey clerk's filing system, navigating a warp in the space-time continuum and creating a light source out of fish, Guybrush Threepwood is dispirited to find himself once again stranded on Monkey Island.

Lifting underlying riffs from Doug Trumbull's Silent Running and third-act visuals from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, with coincidental hints of Interstellar (Damon is once again stranded on a distant planet, a world away from Jessica Chastain – what are the chances?), The Martian delivers on both intergalactic spectacle and feet-in-the-soil character drama.

Noi, who once saved a stranded baby whale, lives by the sea with his fisherman father and six cats.

Once the two stranded passengers decide (for the sake of convenience) to share a hotel room for the night, the beeps, crossed signals and static of cellphone communication determine the movie's nervous pulse.

The center of the film is an unforgettably gripping, heart-in-your-throat evocation of the unbearable loneliness and terror of ultimate abandonment once its hero, stranded and presumed dead, gives up hope of being rescued but still clings tenaciously to life.

Writing in The Times, Stephen Holden said, "The center of the film is an unforgettably gripping, heart-in-your-throat evocation of the unbearable loneliness and terror of ultimate abandonment once its hero, stranded and presumed dead, gives up hope of being rescued but still clings tenaciously to life".