Examples of use of run aground
1. The Exxon Valdez supertanker had run aground on a reef.
2. Plans to stop further erosion have run aground in Congress.
3. But have passions really run aground, as Bereket claimed?
4. Chanchu earlier drove an oil tanker to run aground near Taiwan‘s southern port of Kaohsiung.
5. But as with the tsunami, aid efforts must not run aground in bureaucratic red–tape.