Run-aground Sentence Examples

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  • Dredging machines are kept constantly at work, while steamers are stationed near the most dangerous sandbanks to assist vessels that run aground.

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  • They gave us a wide berth, we were more worried they might run aground.

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  • A boat with a keel that sits low in the water can smoothly sail through some bodies of water but will quickly run aground in others.

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  • The ship was eventually discovered run aground at Diamond Shoals, North Carolina.

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