Verb (used with object) : The rising floodwaters marooned us on top of the house. ,Having lost all his money, he was marooned in the strange city. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Robinson Crusoe lived for years as a maroon. From Dictionary.com.
These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Psychologically "marooned," Dale finds a woman in the village who is in real trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]
Even so, few of the 'marooned' holidays had passed off without trouble, and in the end the agency had abandoned them. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off] Reference
Ted Baillieu slams government for treatment of 'marooned' families UPDATE 3. 15pm: STATE. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Corrigan writes that Cape Girardeau residents helped many travelers "marooned" on I-55 during the 1979 "thundersnow.". From Wordnik.com. [seMissourian.com Headlines] Reference
A dozen other foreigners sat in the lobby, marooned. From Wordnik.com. [Roadblocks and Riots] Reference
By dark half a dozen men were marooned at the Halfway. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Sixty-five persons were marooned in the central police station. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
"If you get marooned in the underground city, Tom," said Mr. Nestor. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
AT&T users will be marooned on the carrier's sluggish 2G data network. From Wordnik.com. [CES 2010: Google debuts the Nexus One] Reference
Among those marooned in hotels were one hundred from New York, Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
They were rescued after being marooned for four days on a deserted island. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Odyssey] Reference
His eyes caught sight of the ragged and un-kempt figure of the marooned sailor. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
In some of the poorer sections the attitude of the marooned was not so cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
About 36,000 metric tons of prime U.S. beef was left marooned on docks or aboard ships. From Wordnik.com. [LEAVING A BAD TASTE] Reference
Many have been marooned by the flood waters and cut off from urgently needed medical care. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan Floods Putting Thousands of Pregnant Women at Risk] Reference
I was reminded of a New Yorker cartoon sometime ago of a couple marooned on a desert island. From Wordnik.com. [Mapping a Win] Reference
Truly, in discarding their normal size, they might as well have been marooned on another planet!. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
What would you do if you woke up and found yourself electronically marooned from the outside world?. From Wordnik.com. [Vandals leave Californians without phone or Internet service] Reference
Or, not exactly deserted, for what has happened to me is more an act of justice; “marooned” is right. From Wordnik.com. [The Line] Reference
When Totton first told NEWSWEEK her story in the spring of 1999, she was marooned in the homeless shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The School Of Hard Knocks] Reference
More than 7 million people were marooned on high points of land, alongside snakes crawling out of the flood. From Wordnik.com. [Dark After The Storm] Reference
They agreed to go ashore in the morning, and search for the marooned sailor supposed to be on Lonely Island. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Amid the historic downturn in car sales, many dealers who may feel marooned on a desert island just got voted off. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor Detroit--GM votes 1,100 dealers off its island] Reference
Even now, some families who refused to abandon their villages remain marooned on islands cut off from all transport. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan Floods Push Malnourished Kids To The Brink: Children Need Food] Reference
The marooned scientist and his friends, with the crew of the whale ship, experienced some bad weather during this time. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
So far, the risk pool in Texas has enrolled 284 of the people marooned by the death of the Harris Methodist Health Plan. From Wordnik.com. [Health Plans: Not Always Safe] Reference
But there was no avoiding the fact that this tale of marital infidelity among the rich felt marooned in the wrong decade. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: The Lessons Of Hollywood's Creative Crisis] Reference
He was as abandoned as the unfortunate marooned by rushing waters; as unheeded as a lame lamb in the multitude of the flock. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
That was to head at once for the lonely island where the sailor, probably maddened by his loneliness and hardship, was marooned. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Croatians in Herzegovina, the other half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consider themselves Croats marooned in the wrong nation-state. From Wordnik.com. [BALKANS TRAGEDY] Reference
Though "Cloud Atlas's" characters are marooned in their own time and place, they connect to one another through the act of reading. From Wordnik.com. [PUSHING THE ENVELOPE] Reference
JON TURTELTAUB'S WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING IS a holiday movie through and through, though it's been marooned in this the cruelest month. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Train] Reference
Ned is marooned on Spider Island, and while there discovers a wreck submerged in the sand, and finds a considerable amount of treasure. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
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