maroon

She turned a maroon tablecloth into a makeshift curtain, attaching it to the French doors with suction cups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

But Jane, who enters her office to an oil painting of her father, smiling kindly in a maroon armchair, is confident that Sol would have wanted his holdings intact for generations to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Hull said that surveillance footage showed Robinson's vehicle entering a campus parking garage, before a man wearing a maroon shirt, Converse shoes and grey or olive shorts was seen walking across campus.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The charge of the maroon cavalry was gathering pace.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

When she bent down to pick up her litter, she spotted the maroon edge of a book jammed between the can and the wall.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

After an expedition to a hostile planet, he unintentionally maroons his fellow explorers, so they have no choice but to set up a colony there.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

That maroons 100 chatty senators - including four Democrats in the heat of a nomination fight - for the serious constitutional business of the impeachment trial, for hours at a time.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

The sinking of a yacht maroons a wealthy businessman and his beautiful wife on an island with a former servant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

A beautiful palette of umbers and tangerines and maroons, the amphitheater’s spiky formations let your imagination fly.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

The village was run by maroons whom the British had been unable to defeat.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

With Burnley marooned in the Championship relegation zone, they could be the third team in three years to suffer the double drop,

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

As she spends more time in the house she develops a sense of responsibility for the boy, who seems helplessly marooned in the haunted space, “trapped like a wasp in a glass bottle.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In short: Wilson snuck a 2,700-year-old poem through the gates of mainstream taste — and after that victory, her arrogance left her marooned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

His universally acclaimed “Summer of Soul” dropped in June 2021, offering deep refreshment to thirsty concertgoers marooned in a barren season for live music.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Now that she was marooned in Boulder City, her few social companions consisted of the ill-educated and hardscrabble wives of sawyers and miners.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Fifteenth-century sailors shared stories of ships that had become ensnared in the algae, marooning their crews at sea.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2023

This time a van's clutch has stopped working, marooning them in the central reservation of the busy motorway.

From BBC ● May 1, 2023

The lack of open nursing home beds is marooning some patients in hospitals for weeks while social workers seek placements.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

Debris flows and swollen creeks blocked roads and highways, marooning hundreds of people for hours and, in some cases, days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

It is now many years since my marooning on Ug, but my recollection of the country, its inhabitants and their wonderful manners and customs is exceedingly vivid.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce