Sentence examples for stranded me from inspiring English sources

A missed connection had stranded me and summarily canceled a meeting the next day in Toronto.

The state department stranded me in Russia as I was transiting through on my way to Latin America.

I watched them go, wondering who they were collecting for, and if this would be the day the lift stranded me between floors.

As for me, my empty subway card stranded me by the bus stop about thirty blocks from my apartment, and, by the time I got home, blisters wreathed my feet.

But I am also not delusional or stupid enough to think this is rational, which strands me in some awkward netherworld between hopeless romantic and self-aware realist.

"That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could accomplish," she writes.

It wasn't some elaborate trap devised by nature to strand me.

As I accompanied the woman to the station to help her board the train to Mathura, several others who were stranded surrounded me began asking for train arrival and departure information.

Later in the month, at a tiny homecoming show at The Monarch pub in Camden Town, the combination of overzealous security and being three minutes late leaves me stranded outside with some schoolgirls, who tell me with desperate looks that they can't get in either and, yes, it is really unfair.

In contrast, my intuition, formed in part by various aquatic misadventures (a boat's broken motor that left me stranded on a small island in the St . Lawrence Rivercomes to mind), made me somewhat skeptical of the idea that primates have crossed oceans.

Then I call my assistant and beg her to come find me, praying my phone battery doesn't die and leave me stranded on some empty country road.