Broken down, say

Usage examples of stranded.

What if her insistence upon remaining inside the barouche did make the difference between traveling onward or remaining stranded?

Swamped by brawling bodies, Jasmine the druid, never comfortable indoors, found herself stranded as a fish out of water.

The ship, lifted by a formidable wave, had just stranded, and her masting had fallen without wounding anybody.

She testified that she and her friends Mela Merwoman and Ida Human had been sent by the Simurgh to rescue the stranded trio, and had done so, with the help of a Seed of Thyme and some negotiation.

Melville had thought so at the time, but now here he was, stranded on a distant planet with a mad dwarven marine sergeant, a monkish purser, a beautiful elven surgeon, and a crew of stranded sailors, surrounded by dead aliens.

The adversity consisted of the stranded San Salvador Opera Company, a period of hotel secondstory work, and then a career as a professional palmist, jumping from town to town.

Agudists from Budapest, a shortage of cash obliged Perl to go outside the Zionist orbit for paying customers so that one of his stranded Betar contingents might continue its trip.

Lowe, she could be less easily asked to Xerox sheet music or chauffeur stranded members, or bake cakes for Sales or sew concert robes or create nametags or centerpieces or otherwise be volunteered to perform those time-consuming and innately female tasks which prettified or cushioned or diverted, which perhaps might even be said to civilize, but really, these days it hardly seemed important to her to spend several evenings making fifty holiday ribbon nametag rosettes to hand out to the audience at the Restport Nursing Home concert.

In truth, neither of us felt very sure that the Devaki would welcome Soli, and I did not want to leave him stranded with a team of sick dogs.

Hungry and thirsty and stranded in a strange place, he and Chao did not know whether another southbound train would be coming through and did not dare ask questions for fear of drawing attention.

In the meanwhile, the monster thus stranded did not move, nor attempt by struggling to regain the water while the tide was still high.

But farther along the lower route the crowds became thicker, jostling, shouting slogans, and blocking the throughway, heedless of the blaring horns and curses from the occupants of stranded vehicles.

Either they had abundant resources from their stranded vessels, in grain, cattle, tools, ammunition, or else some things were thrown up on the coast which supplied them with all the first necessities of life.

For February, it was a cop even beefier than Treen helping a stranded motorist change a tire.

Somewhere out beyond the black horizon, the drowned moon was waiting to unspin in stranded light toward the shore.