Definition of beached in US English: beached
adjective Hauled up or stranded on a beach.
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‘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.’