maroon
Example Sentences
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When enslaved Africans successfully escaped from bondage, they often set up maroon communities.
Ketchup has to be maroon before I will refuse to eat it.
A pensioner says he and his wife feel "marooned" from the outside world, after being left without broadband, TV, or a landline, for nearly six weeks.
From BBC
Other videos released previously from the scene show the maroon SUV crashed into the side of the road.
From BBC
He said he saw two men he believed to be agents surround a maroon Honda Pilot while another pulled on the driver’s side handle a couple of times.
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