stranded

Example Sentences

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Some residents including children and elderly people were stranded on rooftops before being rescued, at times in small boats.

From Barron's

I stayed close to the bank while Togbe and Grandpa Dodzi took off like fish that had been stranded on land and were finally back in water.

From Literature

The story by William Golding, about young boys stranded on an island who descend into bloody chaos, left a "profound scar" on Thorne and, years later, he's adapting it into a four-part BBC series.

From BBC

They want to install water sources for sheep stranded on the U.S. side.

From Los Angeles Times

A rusting cargo ship now lies stranded on a sandbank in the blue lagoon, where only a handful of fishing boats float around.

From Barron's