strand
Example Sentences
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Before sunrise, most lanes of the 5 Freeway in Sun Valley were flooded, stranding cars and leaving one with water up to its doors.
From Los Angeles Times
The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
Dozens of liveaboards - people who live on the canal - are stranded, with repairs expected to take months.
From BBC
We even planned in case we were stranded up there, which luckily we weren’t.
From Los Angeles Times
Dozens of people have been left stranded for Christmas after a giant hole emerged in a section of the Llangollen Canal in Shropshire on Monday.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
