Stranded
[strændɪd] or ['strændɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Strand
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Aground, ashore, wrecked, cast away.
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Examples
- In case of shipwreck it is often employed to carry a line from the shore to a stranded vessel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three wires stranded together ran from the central office to each instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Happily this change does not leave me stranded; it but hurries into premature execution designs long formed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I saw him for the third time in a wrecked ship, stranded on a wild, sandy shore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In addition to the regular force, there was an extra force of two or three operators, and some stranded ones, who were a burden to us, for board was high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was content to lie on the shore where fortune had stranded her--and you could see that the career of this old couple was over. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Stranded was Gruff and Glum in a harbour of everlasting mud, when all in an instant Bella floated him, and away he went. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had lost my hold on Black Peter and was stranded in London without a shilling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She drifted towards the harbour, and was stranded on the sands at the entrance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the bridge at Geneva, built in 1822, ropes of untwisted wire, bound together, were used, and some fifteen years later stranded wire ropes were employed in the Harz mines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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