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stranding

verb as in maroon

verb as in ground

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In his introduction, Isaacson weaves these disparate strands into an effective story line.

I’m fairly certain I would have pulled every strand of hair out of my head if we hadn’t withdrawn her from the school.

Typically, my boss used a hunting bow to fire fishing line over a beefy limb, lifted a strand of parachute cord with the fishing line, lifted a static rope with the parachute cord, then gave me the nod.

When the wool arrived in the mail from an Etsy seller, it was so thin that multiple pieces had to be woven together to make a decent strand.

Then, as the female releases thousands of eggs in pearly, gelatinous strands, the male coats them with sperm.

The earth has been decimated by climate change, stranding what remains of humanity on a train.

Some chauvinistic pundits are portraying the dual trips as stranding the first lady without her man.

Oldham, their manager, went to California to escape the mess, stranding Jagger.

Mere stranding, of course, was all in the day's work; the constantly recurring question being when and where to court or risk it.

But in one respect we had had the advantage, and that was in the version Davies had given of his stranding on the Hohenhrn.

They drifted back and forth with the tide, some stranding on the beach, others floating seaward through the inlet.

Rolling to the flood-swollen river, it had been carried several hundred yards down stream before stranding.

For the first time since the stranding on the coast d'Alcacer's heart sank within him.

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On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stranding, such as: isolate, strand, beach, desert, forsake, and leave.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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