Example Sentences

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In fact, she is remarkably alive to the plight of her family members, locating the loneliness in them even as they have marooned her with her unbearable past.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

Recent Met stagings -- notably Franco Zeffirelli's spacious La Boheme from 1981-82 and his Tosca, for which Rome was rebuilt, two seasons ago -- also have marooned their casts in movie sets.

From Time Magazine Archive

It alters nothing that you have marooned yourself under conditions that please and content you.

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.

Captain Kidd would have marooned a modern Trust magnate for conduct unworthy of a gentleman of fortune.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard