Sentence examples for stranded for months from inspiring English sources

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

Greek police have begun to clear Europe's largest informal refugee camp, where thousands of people have been stranded for months.

The move follows an ILO delegation to the Gulf state this month that found migrant workers stranded for months without pay and stripped of their passports.

In one rundown collection of dormitory blocks, hundreds of men have been stranded for months without wages, after their employer abandoned them.

You are among thousands of new-home owners to find yourself stranded for months without a phone line because of delays in installing cabling.

The expedition began in August 1914, but by January 1915 their ship, Endurance, had become stuck in sea ice and eventually sank, leaving the crew stranded for months until they were able to reach the uninhabited Elephant Island.

So when the men had to abandon the comparative luxury of their ship, in which they had been stranded for seven months, they had only five small tents to squeeze into, and only 18 fur-lined sleeping bags.

I was 13 and had never been to Lagos before, but we had packed up our home in the north of Nigeria and were en route to a new life in a new country when we got stranded for six months in an unfamiliar city where robbers were publicly executed on the beach and mangrove swamps bubbled at the city limits.

In January, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, Hugo Martínez, greeted Cuban migrants passing through one of his country's airports after having been stranded for three months in Costa Rica on their way to the United States.

The final pieces of an American spy plane that had been stranded for three months in southern China were packed up and flown out Tuesday, wrapping up a tempestuous chapter in Sino-U.S. relations.

Mr. Wehelie, an American citizen of Somali descent, had been stranded for nearly two months in Cairo, where he was questioned by F.B.I. agents.