stranded
IPA: strˈændʌd
adjective
- (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
- (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
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Examples of "stranded" in Sentences
- Blame swirls in stranded Continental Express flight
- Blame swirls in stranded Continental Express flight - USATODAY. com
- It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted.
- In addition, its high altitude means that it has areas with animals and vegitation stranded from the last ice age.
- I turned the green and orange yarns into an experiment in stranded color knitting, making up patterns as I went along.
- In about two dozen states -- including Maryland -- it forced ratepayers to eat some $100 billion in "stranded" reactor costs in preparation for "free competition."
- Two years since fighting ended at Nahr el Bared, thousands of Palestinian refugees remain stranded without homes and, along with a number of Lebanese, are simply fed up.
- Authorities say hundreds of thousands remain stranded after their homes and villages were inundated, clinging to the roofs of houses or whatever dry speck of land they can find.
- Meanwhile, hundreds of supply trucks remain stranded at the closed Torkhum border crossing in the Khyber tribal region, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from Taliban insurgents.
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