Good - well-developed and sensible

Usage examples of grounded.

Sid followed the stretcher back to the skimmer where an aidman had it grounded while he worked on the bleeding and strapped on some narco-spray nerve blocks.

England mortally cankered with social discontent were not grounded in a surprising familiarity with backstairs morale.

And if, as you say, the Cold Turn made the Threads break into dust, perhaps ice from the coldest northlands might freeze and break grounded Threads.

Larnaca Airport between Egyptian commandos and Cypriot national guardsmen, from which the hijackers of the grounded jet emerged unscathed while the airfield was littered with the burning wreckage of the Egyptian transport aircraft and dozens of dead and dying Cypriots and Egyptians.

Stalin, whose historical determinants found themselves grounded in nature, sublimated under the name of Genius, that is, something irrational and inexpressible: here, depoliticization is evident, it fully reveals the presence of a myth.

Motion rather died away from her, and the priestess grounded as smoothly as a ship grounds in fine weather on a sandy bank.

It was a beautiful islet with coral sand so inviting that when the boats grounded, the men and dogs sloshed through the shallow water and ran ashore.

Peal is grounded on the Twenty-four changes Doubles and Singles on four bells.

Entomology is far less essentialistic, far more open to difference and change, far more attentive to the body, than is, say, cultural critique grounded in Frankfurt School post-Marxism or in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

When a firepot burst on its armored back, the dragon remained grounded no more.

The masts and headquarters building had been properly grounded and so escaped any real damage, but the exterior-exposed power grids had shorted out and had been cut loose by Seventeen to protect itself.

The river was split into a dozen channels, and the Hares kept the boat adroitly in deep water, for there was never a moment when it grounded.

The Hobbesian variant focuses primarily on the transfer of the title of sovereignty and conceives the constitution of the supranational sovereign entity as a contractual agreement grounded on the convergence of preexisting state subjects.

Their missile was in a hurry, too, chewing away the distance to the grounded ships.

It grounded him in reality, since none of the past two years had been real.