Example Sentences
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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
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
It's a record that does clever things with its anachronisms: retro-robotic voices collide satisfyingly with free-jazz skronks on Rocket #9, while highlight Forêt Vierge maroons its wobbly analogue synths amid icy, minimalist techno.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
