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How to use the word stranded in a Sentence?

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They’re just stranded in the desert.

Maisoun Sulfab

Found on CNN
12 months ago

When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months maternity leave, where upon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair, i mean, Pete Buttigieg is the only person in human history to have a child and all the rest of us get postpartum depression.

Mike Pence

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander in the snow. So, he picked Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander up and he placed Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander under the awning … so that Casey Maccarone Monique Alexander would n’t get snowed on anymore.

Monique Alexander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He just instantly broke down crying, he was stranded as well and he was walking down the street and he saw her in the snow. So he picked her up and he placed her under the awning … so that she wouldn’t get snowed on anymore.

Casey Maccarone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It takes a lot of coordination among trained, authorized individuals to successfully rescue stranded sea turtles, it is therefore critical that citizens report their sightings immediately, so that rescue efforts can begin quickly.

Mary Kay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the Coastal Bend, around one third of the stranded loggerheads have been found alive and are receiving care at permitted rehabilitation facilities, including Amos Rehabilitation Keep Keep, Texas State Aquarium, and Texas Sealife Center, the affected loggerheads have been found underweight and emaciated. They are receiving diligent care in rehabilitation, and we hope that most will recover and ultimately be released back into the Gulf of Mexico.

Mary Kay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thousands of flight disruptions have left passengers and crew members stranded at crowded airports from one end of the country to the other forcing them to miss weddings, funerals, and business meetings and ruining family vacations that have been planned for months in advance.

Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

After driving 10 hours to the border, we get there. We are obviously happy that we are finally here, but we got there and they say,' no, you can't go through walking, you need a vehicle, we were literally stranded outside in the cold, it was freezing. It's like a 20-second ride... some people were actually bringing cars there and empty minivans but charging people... $ 1,600 per person. At that point I just gave up.

Djau Codjovi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The administration is really leaning forward in encouraging people to leave because they simply don't want more headlines about how the administration failed a second time and left Americans stranded, part of the reason the White House is calling for Americans to leave now is because the administration is feeling snake-bitten by Afghanistan. The president told us that he was going to stay in country until we got every single American out. Obviously, that didn't happen, and we still have hundreds, maybe thousands of American citizens stranded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.

Nathan Sales

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A tipping point has been reached, and there really should be no new commissioning of gas infrastructure from now given the timelines involved, unless companies and their financial backers actually welcome the idea of having stranded assets on their books.

Greig Aitken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gas is a fossil fuel, and any investment into gas today risks becoming a stranded asset. And while interest in green hydrogen has grown exponentially, there is still a large number of hydrogen projects in the pipeline where it's produced from gas, hydrogen produced from gas still produces carbon, and is inconsistent with reaching net zero.

Bill Hare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Look, right now, we have families that are still stranded. so this is just completely unacceptable. And it's part of the debacle that has been this policy and Secretary Blinken needs to answer that.

Claudia Tenney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anyone who says there aren't people stranded is wrong.

Darrell Issa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a sad day for our country, americans have been stranded in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration and are now left to defend themselves from terrorists overrunning the country. One motto of our military is' leave no man behind.' But today, that's exactly what President Biden did.

Markwayne Mullin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They are scared, stranded and trapped in the Kabul area, so far, they’ve been unable to reach the airport. I know Jen Psaki has previously said this isn’t happening, but she’s dead wrong.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are scared, stranded and trapped in the Kabul area, so far, they've been unable to reach the airport. I know the President and his Press Secretary have previously said this isn't happening, but that's dead wrong.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Congressman Issa and staff are aware of the location of several American citizens in Afghanistan, and we have been in direct and consistent contact with them. They are scared, stranded and trapped in the Kabul area. So far, they’ve been unable to reach the airport. I know Jen Psaki has previously said this isn’t happening, but she’s dead wrong.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jen Psaki said in a previous briefing to contact the White House with names of stranded American citizens…so we did.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our lives are in extreme danger and I don’t know how long it’s going to continue. They are going to people’s homes at night and they are just taking them away, and yes, we are stranded.

The American mother

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's not worthy of anything, he's a failure in deed and now word, and to get up in front of the American people and say nothing about the Americans and allies stranded in Afghanistan and the disaster that unfolds in front of our faces ….

Dagen McDowell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Back in the day, it was like' A hundred thousand miles ? You're stranded,' whereas today it might be' My phone doesn't hook up because it's too old,'.

Ivan Drury

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When it comes to Australian who are stranded...we, as the federal government, are working to help more Australians get back home.

Josh Frydenberg

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Listed companies have started to acknowledge the risk of sanctioning stranded assets; the risks for governments are similar, but with outcomes that will impact hundreds of millions of people, whether or not individual petrostates care about the physical effects of climate change, they must recognise the impact falling fossil fuel income will have on their economies and take action to diversify.

Mike Coffin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We completely ran out of gas and would've been stranded, they saved us.

The Hargett family from Gladstone

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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