Noun : Robinson Crusoe lived for years as a maroon.    From Dictionary.com. 

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. 

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