marooned
Example Sentences
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Footage taken in the moments before the impact showed multiple motorists driving around the marooned car.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
“Robinson Crusoe” concerned a longer ordeal: Defoe had drawn on the true account of a Scottish sailor who was marooned on an island near Chile, borrowing themes from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
"People marooned on rooftops are asking to be rescued," Cebu information officer Rhon Ramos told AFP by phone, adding that even some evacuation centres had been flooded.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
"There are entire communities that seem to be marooned and areas that seem to be flattened," Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon said.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
It seems comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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