Sentence examples for aground it from inspiring English sources

When an iceberg runs aground, it can plow a furrow several metres deep in the seabed that may extend for tens of kilometres.

Running Aground It's more likely that a cruise ship will run aground than sink.

Baden was the last major warship to begin the scuttling process, and British forces in the harbor managed to secure the ship and run it aground before it could sink in deeper water.

"The father let the son drive the airboat when it ran aground and it turned and sank," he said.

The huge tanker had been refloated and towed to this spot, about thirty miles from the place where it had run aground, but it had taken a salvage crew twelve days to figure out how to do it.

The ship ran aground after it left its charted course to make a close pass to the island.

The situation for the company became worse when the drilling rig it was using, the Kulluk, ran aground after it was being towed back to port.

European exploration of the reef began in 1770, when the British explorer Captain James Cook ran his ship aground on it.

Mr. Walder said that the clear task a week ago was to prevent the damaged ship from running aground as it approached the Spanish coast.

When running aground rendered it faulty and none of the 51-strong crew had been paid in five months, Yugoslavian-built cruise ship the MV Lyubov Orlova fell into disrepair and disuse.

Hundreds of migrants from Libya have been rescued off the Italian coast after their boat ran aground as it approached the island of Lampedusa.