the villagers came to stare at the foreign ship that was aground on their beach and at the strangely dressed sailors on board
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The freighter ran aground near where the other Canadian freighter got stuck earlier this month.—Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025 The latest Canadian freighter to run aground in the Detroit River near downtown has been freed.—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 27 Nov. 2025 The series turns on an incident in 1981, when a Soviet U-137 ‘Whiskey’-class submarine ran aground on rocks deep inside Swedish territorial waters — in the middle of a sensitive Swedish naval exercise.—John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025 Trump's approach to China has run aground, giving Beijing unprecedented advantage in the economic conflict.—Edward Fishman, Time, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aground
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