Sentence examples for was stranded by from inspiring English sources

In 2005, Tomaz Humar, a celebrated Slovenian mountaineer, was stranded by storms on a ledge on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.

But, as with most half-decent American comedy imports, it was stranded by schedulers in random time slots, regularly getting bumped for Indoor Bowls from Bolton.

I was stranded by bad weather for many hours at Newark airport, New Jersey, after a long flight from a literary festival in Mexico.

At the weekend the PM was confronted on a visit to a London church by a five-year-old girl desperate to be reunited with her mother, who was stranded by the ash cloud.

Run out review OUT Wicket!! Jayawardene run out 13 He was stranded by about four feet after Sangakkara had played a beauty of a cut shot to deep cover.

After visiting the exhibition, he went on to Vitebsk, where he was stranded by the outbreak of World War I. Working for the moment in a relatively realistic style, Chagall painted local scenes and a series of studies of old men; examples of the series are The Praying Jew (or The Rabbi of Vitebsk, 1914) and Jew in Green (1914).

About 7,000 tourists were stranded by a dispute over privatization of the ferry service.

In Pakistan-administered Kashmir's Neelum Valley, officials said thousands were stranded by landslides.

Some people never leave home but find they are stranded by a shift in borders.

Elsewhere, small villages that rely on frozen streams for transport are stranded by flowing water.

Xinhua said relief teams were distributing food and water to rural villagers who had been stranded by high waters.