STRANDED in a Sentence
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52 example sentences for STRANDED, such as:
1. Left us stranded, high and dry.
2. But I felt stranded and had to go somewhere.
3. Thus once more our hero found himself stranded.
4. She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
5. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
2. But I felt stranded and had to go somewhere.
3. Thus once more our hero found himself stranded.
4. She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
5. She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
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Meanings and Examples of STRANDED
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stranded
n. a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
v. bring to the ground
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 Any man who'd leave a woman stranded between two armies in the middle of the night, just to go off and fight for a Cause already lost, deserved hanging.
2 Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.
3 Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas.
4 As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
5 But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.
6 In both cases, the stranded whales to which these two skeletons belonged, were originally claimed by their proprietors upon similar grounds.
7 I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
8 Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
9 Left us stranded, high and dry.
10 But I felt stranded and had to go somewhere.
11 I had lost my hold on Black Peter and was stranded in London without a shilling.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
12 And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13 Hence I was carried along for nine days till on the tenth night the gods stranded me on the Ogygian island, where dwells the great and powerful goddess Calypso.
14 Thus once more our hero found himself stranded.
15 Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded him in this cloister.
Example Sentence:
1 It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans.
2 In July, a trainload of Metro-North passengers was stranded for about an hour without water or air conditioning near Westport, after overhead wires fell.
3 Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
4 The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
5 Civilian roles are just as vital, from rescuing people stranded on mountains, from putting out wildfires to carrying people and presidents to and from places where there are no runways.
6 The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
7 He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
8 They shear sheep of their fleece, which they then comb into separate strands of wool.
9 He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
10 Standing in front of the mirror she tweaked a strand of hair into place.
11 She tried to blow a gray strand of hair from her eyes.
12 She wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
13 The fibers become stretcher, so that their toughness - the energy needed to break a strand - rises even more.
14 On close examination, the boy can be seen to have a woven strand of some sort around his left ankle, possibly adornment, spiritual or medicinal.
15 Grasping it with a set of forceps, he fed the strand into the catheter.