Example Sentences

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The area was once a refuge for escaped slaves known as maroons who fought fiercely against their British captors.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

After an expedition to a hostile planet, he unintentionally maroons his fellow explorers, so they have no choice but to set up a colony there.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

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

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2017

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