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.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRANDED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stranded
 a.  abandoned or marooned; cut off or left behind
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  Lily alone was stranded in a great waste of disoccupation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
4  As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
5  But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
6  In both cases, the stranded whales to which these two skeletons belonged, were originally claimed by their proprietors upon similar grounds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
7  I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
9  Left us stranded, high and dry.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
10  But I felt stranded and had to go somewhere.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
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
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
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
14  Thus once more our hero found himself stranded.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
15  Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded him in this cloister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
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.