English language

How to pronounce marooned in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms isolated, stranded


travelers marooned by the blizzard.

Examples of marooned

marooned
They had stopped to talk with some marooned men when they heard a kitten crying.
From the post-gazette.com
Airports became islands of the marooned, as stranded travelers found no way out.
From the stltoday.com
JetBlue Airways left customers marooned for 10 hours or more in a 2007 ice storm.
From the online.wsj.com
On 8 May, the bridges were destroyed, and his family were marooned in the city.
From the en.wikipedia.org
For much of the film, Nim is alone on the island, with her father marooned at sea.
From the philly.com
And some are still digging themselves out after being marooned by 20ft snowdrifts.
From the express.co.uk
Delacruz's son is marooned on the other side of the river and dies of cholera.
From the online.wsj.com
Its crew would still be marooned in space waiting for Atlantis to rescue them.
From the newscientist.com
A Scottish sailor called Alexander Selkirk was marooned on the island in 1704.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Of dark brownish to purplish red
  • A person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
  • Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned"
  • Leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
  • An exploding firework used as a warning signal
  • (marooned) isolated: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
  • Maroon (2000) is the fifth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. The follow-up to 1998's Stunt, Maroon debuted #1 in Canada (their second to reach #1 after 1992's Gordon) and #5 in the United States, selling a million units in America alone. ...
  • Maroon are a German Heavy Metal band based in Nordhausen. They were formed in 1998.
  • Maroon is a dark red color.