maroon

One by one, the maroon waves started washing towards the away end at Easter Road.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Sunday was about the blue and the green but ended up being more about those in maroon and claret and amber.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

In his maroon robes, simple sandals and wide-rimmed spectacles, the Dalai Lama is an unlikely global celebrity.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

When enslaved Africans successfully escaped from bondage, they often set up maroon communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

There’s a maroon one that’s in decent shape and a faded blue one that must have lost some of its beans.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

Maybe it’s the generic newness of the place, which was built a little over five years ago — all browns and maroons and sea foam green.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018

But there's nothing reverential or retro about its approach: it maroons these sounds amid a mass of disconnected, echoing samples – snatches of piano, distorted voices, buzzing electronics – and unexpected beats.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2013

She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

Alexander Selkirk was marooned on an uninhabited island in 1704.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

Nguyen is struggling to piece together the logic that led to his client being marooned in a country where he had no ties.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

I might be marooned on an island, but I wondered if I would ever feel this free again in my life.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

The radiance of the flares lighted the profiles of those on guard, whose faces were half-hidden by coat-collars or ear-flaps— imperturbable, silent, marooned and marooning, watchful and fearless.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer