Sentence examples for be stranded for from inspiring English sources

It is still possible here, two hours from midtown Manhattan, to be stranded for hours late at night, owing to the dearth of passing cars.

He takes a steamship north on the Yenisei River to the Arctic village of Potalovo, where he allows himself to be stranded for weeks.

But drivers will not be stranded for long.

Commuters get backed up after an accident and can be stranded for an hour or so.

The ship, however, was a total loss and the crew could expect to be stranded for a while.

With the Métro closed and no chance of hailing a taxi, they would be stranded for several more hours.

These people were stranded for weeks.

On Sept. 11, he was traveling in Europe and was stranded for five days.

Instead, we were stranded for six days without food or water.

Unaccountably, I am stranded for a few days in a comfortable jail cell with Walt Whitman and Henry James.

Many of them had been stranded for months in El Arish, on the northern Sinai coast.