Definition of beached in US English:

adjective

• Hauled up or stranded on a beach.

  ‘a beached whale’

  ‘beached fishing boats’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A lone combine harvester was beached on a distant field.’
  • ‘Hundreds of large containers fell off a cargo ship, beached off the southwestern coast of England.’
  • ‘The houses are clad in tin sheets, like beached gunboats.’
  • ‘Webster said he is asked to identify beached blobs quite frequently.’
  • ‘Local officials saved seven of 10 beached whales on Sunday.’
  • ‘Fishermen found a 50-foot, 50-ton sperm whale beached on the coast of Taiwan last Saturday.’
  • ‘They could not remain beached 400 metres from the shore.’
  • ‘An off-white agricultural marquee, like some wayward beached iceberg, covered an all-weather work area.’
  • ‘I lie on the pebbles like a beached whale, listening to the laughter of my buddy.’
  • ‘The boat was beached in shallow waters without further incident.’
  • ‘The many boats beached on the construction site are causing delays.’
  • ‘The central compound of parliamentary buildings has been compared to the forms of a cluster of overturned, beached fishing dories.’
  • ‘A baby whale looking for his mom, we are told, is beached.’
  • ‘The whale, now beached, was immediately photographed for the nightly news.’
  • ‘The hollowed-out half of the enormous tree was literally beached.’
  • ‘Later, at the Pacific Ocean, the men find a beached whale.’
  • ‘A small motorboat sat beached along a small fence a few yards away.’
  • ‘Imagine a house perched on seven acres of land, adjacent to a tree-lined pond with a red paddleboat beached at its shore.’
  • ‘We are witnessing the last writhings of a society left beached by the march of history.’
  • ‘About 20 destroyers out of the 50 interned have been beached.’