Stranding

Word STRANDING
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Definitions and meanings of "Stranding"

What do we mean by stranding?

To run aground; to beach.

To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

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The word "stranding" in example sentences

He bent, but he did not break in stranding six baserunners through four innings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Schoelkopf asks anyone who sees the manatee to call the stranding center at

"The most likely cause of the stranding is the squid coming too close to the shore." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here's an idea for a way to decouple efforts to defund the war from the charge of "stranding" the troops: ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the surprise visit, the minister told the media that both sides (Sarawak and Brunei Immigrations) had established an agreement to allow some "flexible operating hours" to ensure that the "stranding" drama will never happen again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, he Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday tempered his criticism of ExpressJet Holdings Inc. for a high-profile passenger "stranding" and laid the blame at a unit of Delta ❋ Unknown (2009)

The agency is continuing to monitor the situation and only plans an intervention if the animals are in imminent danger, such as stranding themselves or showing signs of serious illness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jeter was almost the hero for the Yankees, but RF Magglio Ordonez made a sliding catch on his sinking liner to right field to end the eighth inning, stranding the tying run at third base. — ❋ Unknown (2010)

A 500-meter stretch of the highway collapsed, stranding 400 people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reuters Greek taxi drivers staged a strike Monday to protest reforms dictated by the International Monetary Fund, stranding travelers in Athens. ❋ Tom Lauricella (2011)

Flights across Europe were cancelled for six days, stranding tens of thousands of people, and the eruption was estimated to have cost airlines £130m a day. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's a line of introduction that may not have been too uncommon in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the levees broke and flooded the Crescent City, laying waste to historic—and largely poor and black—neighborhoods and stranding thousands of natives. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

However, it is also true that the Obama White House has heretofore deported hundreds of thousands of non-dangerous illegal immigrants, separating tens of thousands families, while stranding a generation of immigrant over-achievers in a cruel political stalemate over a DREAM Act that still hasn't passed. ❋ Pablo Manriquez (2011)

Today, during Alchemist, Teddy dropped an entire scene, stranding Peg onstage. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

The Yankees got most of their runs on Brett Gardner's bases-clearing triple, but they missed countless other opportunities to blow the game wide open—stranding 10 runners as they plodded to victory. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)

In September, a lightning strike caused power failures on the LIRR, stranding passengers for several hours and prompting a call for a "commuter bill of rights" from Sen. Charles Schumer. ❋ Ted Mann (2012)

In the wake of the Department of Transportation's landmark decision to find American Eagle $900,000 for the May 29th stranding of nearly 600 passengers on Chicago O'Hare's tarmac, remarkably similar stories claiming that the fines would terrify the airlines and drive them to cancel huge numbers of flights appeared all over the national media. ❋ Kate Hanni (2011)

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