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

Current ASU student Sophie said her family "bleeds maroon and gold".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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

Locals played extras and dressed in Welch High School’s maroon and white for a 1970s-era football game at Vic Nystrom Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

“Travis, look at that man over there in the coat and maroon sweater,” Dill said.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

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

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

The Joyjatra, chartered by a Singapore-based company, was marooned for nearly four months.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 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

Alexander Selkirk was marooned on an uninhabited island in 1704.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

We also debated heading down to Camp Two that afternoon, but Taske was insistent that we not descend from the Col while Hall was marooned on the South Summit.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 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

In neighbouring Switzerland the heat dried out the shore of Brenet Lake, marooning boats.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

The gentleman was an islander; and during the few hours in which we were gliding over the seventeen miles between the city and the ocean, he entertained me with an account of his marooning expeditions.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers