That tops the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, the infamous tanker that ran aground in Alaska in 1989.
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.|by Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica|September 18, 2020|ProPublica
By the time half the fleet had been aground, there was no longer any pretense of holding a ship down until all its crew returned.
Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster
We're now aground on the branches of a sapucaya,—a species of the Brazil-nut, and among the tallest of Amazonian trees.
Our Young Folks--Vol. I, No. II, February 1865|Various
The Congress and Cumberland were anchored not far from each other; the Minnesota got aground, and was some distance off.
Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895|Various
Natives opened fire on us when our boats were aground in a creek, and some of our men got hit.
By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories|Louis Becke
I immediately informed Manuel of this, and he looked at her through his night glass, and said she was aground upon a sand-bank.
Tales from Blackwood|Various
British Dictionary definitions for aground
aground
/ (əˈɡraʊnd) /
adverb, adjective
(postpositive)on or onto the ground or bottom, as in shallow water