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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Tiny teeth, shut eyes, Beatrix Potter whiskers, French-mustardy fur, maroon scab, nubby spinal bone.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

The Houston canvases are dark purples, maroons, black: the colors of old sorrows or ageless ones.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2017

Set in Wyoming shortly after the Civil War, the film maroons the titular group of unsavory types at a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2015

The descendants of maroons who evaded the British still live in Jamaica to this day.

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

Steinem described her mother as disappearing down the street in her nightgown, or marooned in bed “with eyes closed and lips moving in occasional response to voices only she could hear.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

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 told them I’d been marooned on an island.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

"I meant to say that this fellow whom you cornered and chased out of the air is one of the fellows who hazed Hal's cousin by marooning him on this island," Mr. Perry answered.

From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by J. W. Duffield