Sentence examples for aground the from inspiring English sources
After another Union ship ran aground, the remaining warships fled for New Orleans.
"I ran aground the first time I saw it," Mr. Haight said.
One prize ship ran aground; the other simply hindered progress, so both were burned.
After running aground, the river pilot Mel Adams said, "When you write all this down, my name is Tom Armstrong".
It has always amused me to think that an ancestor of mine was responsible for running aground the British Fleet.
When the Greek tanker went aground, the diesel oil in her holds soiled the bay around Newport, R.I., temporarily closing beaches and fisheries.
The crew decided to run the ship aground in the Rockaways.
The stern section drifted aground at the opposite side to the bay to where the bow section remained.
On Day 7, the boat slammed aground when the helmsman fell asleep at the wheel.
They ran the ship aground off the coast of what is now Mauritania in 1816.
During this period he also ran the boat aground off the Dutch coast but managed to refloat her without damage.
