How To Use Maroon In A Sentence

Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes.
The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
Inside reminded her of a hotel; maroon carpet, cream walls and bellboys in black and grey suits.
I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot. Times, Sunday Times
Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
Black was just above the middle of that table, with maroon the worst colour. Times, Sunday Times
She opened the tie box and looked at her purchase. It was silk, with maroon stripes.
A few minutes later the ship was sailing away north, knowing that they might be marooning their shipmates with them, but knowing that they had no other choice.
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
She is a very short woman in maroon and saffron robes.
Originally from the north Norfolk coast, he was bought up with the tradition that when the maroons went up, the whole community downed tools and rushed to help.
Deep burgundy and maroon remain the height of floral chic. Times, Sunday Times
ELLIS HIXOM, with charge to meet him at such a river though the Master knew well the Captain's toothpike: yet by reason of his admonition and caveat [warning] given him at parting, he (though he bewrayed no sign of distrusting the Cimaroon) yet stood as amazed, lest something had befallen our Captain otherwise than well. Sir Francis Drake Revived
Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather. Times, Sunday Times
He wore black pants with a maroon shirt, the long sleeves pushed up to his elbows.
They took me back to the house and my aunt cleaned me up then gave me a manicure, filing my nails and painting them maroon.
All roads into the town will be a sea of green and red and maroon and white as another generation answer the tribal call.
'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
I was marooned on a lonely country road.
He was wearing a dark maroon shirt with an open dark blue jacket over it.
Its acoustic tones were marooned amid the increasingly electronic textures of their music. Times, Sunday Times
She likes to go on holiday by herself and says she would be happy marooned on a desert island. Times, Sunday Times
Dark reds like burgundy and maroon appeal to moderate income groups.
When off duty he will have one other suit, either lime green, electric blue or maroon and he will often wear the jacket with a pair of black trousers.
The book opens with the introduction of a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island.
Red, maroon, yellow, blue are good colours for neckties, patterned or solid.
His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
The only thing that had kept him from going insane when he was marooned was the beauty of the island.
Some had black engines to pull them, some were liveried in maroon or green. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
He wore a maroon prison jumpsuit that appeared to be covering a bulletproof vest. The Sun
Police say a 16-year-old girl was stopped by two men driving a maroon sedan around 12.15 pm.
Whether a camel is stuck in a gluggy saltpan, a vehicle is bogged on a giant sandhill, a party is running out of fuel or water, or guests are marooned on the wrong side of rising floodwaters, Rex can always find a solution.
This was the only musical instrument the marooned men possessed. Times, Sunday Times
The restaurant had worked hard to conjure up vivid images of Thailand in every detail from the artwork and carvings adorning the green and maroon walls to the incense wafting through the air.
Warm, dark, the maroon velvet seats remind me of the womb, and then there's the spermatic smell of popcorn.
The ones in the family room are maroon, teal and white. The hardware in the living room is gold plastic.
Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather. Times, Sunday Times
For years the start and end of the two minutes silence across the town has been signalled by the firing of a maroon - a firework-like device that produces a deafening boom.
Pinched-faced telephonists in drab maroon overalls intone ‘at your service ‘over and over again.
I still support marooning Broder on an ice floe and pushing him out to sea. Matthew Yglesias » Credit Where Due
But I don't like the Bidwells, or the fact that the Cardinals still refuse to give up the championship they stole from the Pottsville Maroons. Wild Card Weekend
The rest of the lads are out ‘on the town’, they've been marooned on a sheep stations for a whole 10 days, so what will it be like letting them loose in public again?
Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather. Times, Sunday Times
Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
Another way to enhance the deep maroon is to partner it with the soft creamy yellow of grasses and other spires of maroon. Times, Sunday Times
Soldiers are marooned on an island inhabited by monsters. The Sun
the travellers were marooned
Even so, few of the 'marooned' holidays had passed off without trouble, and in the end the agency had abandoned them. Longshot
Nora chose a blue cotton dress with lots of tiny buttons covered in maroon imitation silk.
It's a straightforward, unimaginative slasher picture about a serial killer convict, one Leo Rook, who kills off warders and fellow lags one by one when they are marooned on a lighthouse.
The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark. Times, Sunday Times
Common witch hazels have some of the most dependable yellow - and maroon-colored foliage in woodland areas. Nature hit snooze button on foliage, just now starting to pop
War veterans were left fuming in the seaside town after lifeboatmen told them that they would not be able to fire maroons at the beginning and end of the silence on advice from RNLI headquarters.
She was surprised and horrified by the blood tears that seeped out from under the sagged down eyelids and plopped in maroon patches onto the Sybil’s white robes. Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber
Many of the Maroons (who are descended from escaped black African slaves) have more than one wife.
This Victorian Walnut davenport Desk or Captains Desk has a beautiful birdseye maple interior. The top is covered with a maroon leather surface.
We seem to be going for maroon, blue and creamy white this year.
The Marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.
His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
By 1770, five thousand to six thousand Maroons or runaway slaves were living in the jungle.
Police were called to deal with the marooned low-loader on Friday morning after it became jammed on the crest of the bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal at Staverton.
The computer on the desk was an island of straight lines marooned in a zigzag sea of paper. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark. Times, Sunday Times
The book is a tedious affair that meanders along the journey of its plot before marooning us in an improbably happy ending.
The furniture in the room was either white or maroon, Miranda's favorite colors.
The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. Ulysses
It had carved beams around the windows and eaves painted a deep maroon. Times, Sunday Times
You can use maroon, grayish tones of pinks and whites to achieve the same results.
The banner features the colours of the local clubs-green, gold, white and maroon.
Anyway, very few flowers in my yard flaunt the single colours - bright yellow, soft pink, browny maroon, crimson - black - of my original sowing.
Imagine those poor people marooned on the runway for something like four hours. The Sun
The Maroon Knights spent most of the first half in the Mount Markham defensive third of the field. The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
In Manchester, a maroon was fired from the Town Hall to mark the start of the silence, and all take-offs and landings at the airport were put on hold until it was over.
They were gentlemen's half-hose cottonsilk mix, black with maroon clocks and parti-coloured toe and heel.
Tourists got stranded abroad or marooned at home. Times, Sunday Times
The long-established Sitiwinangun earthenware pottery, locally known as gerabah, is dominated by the color maroon.
Last Sunday was officially declared a day of no rest in Ballinrobe, as local painters and decorators coloured the town in maroon and yellow.
This was the only musical instrument the marooned men possessed. Times, Sunday Times
Tales were told of flood-bound trains marooned in the desert for so long that drivers fished in new-born rivers or shot wild goats in order to feed their passengers.
A few rugs were place around the room, deep gold and laced with maroon edges to match the upholstery of the couch.
As the clock inched towards midnight a storm struck the island marooning everyone there.
The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere.
It would seem tantamount to saying they were stuck with what he had done, marooned like shipwrecked sailors. PROSPECT HILL
A green and purple European needlework carpet and dark maroon chintz curtains with pink flowers and blue-green leaves complemented the soft pink of the paneling.
Soldiers are marooned on an island inhabited by monsters. The Sun
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
There was hardly a creek or stream or point of land along our coast where fabulous treasures were not said to have been hidden by this worthy marooner.
The schools new colours are maroon, royal blue and yellow.
With a strong population of English, Australian and South African transplants, mixed with a number of east coasters marooned in Southern California, Irvine is a unique squash melting pot.
He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
A lorry driver was killed in a fireball crash which closed the M60 and marooned thousands of shoppers in the Trafford Centre.
There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side.
However, we are also making a habit of marooning ordinary Canadians in far-off lands, with no such prospects of success. Archive 2009-02-01
We saw maroon bluebonnets (Who even knew there was such a thing?).
Many people have been marooned on rooftops or high ground. Times, Sunday Times
I stuck with maroon and gold and with a gold headpiece with a deep red veil.
Another way to enhance the deep maroon is to partner it with the soft creamy yellow of grasses and other spires of maroon. Times, Sunday Times
There were several landslides in the area, where four workers were marooned.
Courts, the media and the public have managed so far to turn back some of the zealous excesses of this government to persecute, harass and maroon our duskier citizens. Archive 2009-08-01
Just then, as ill luck would have it, came in the Winchelsea man-of-war, by way of visit, which put the marooners into such a surprise that they set fire to the ship and sloop and fled ashore to the woods.
The spinachlike green called amaranth is delicious in salads and looks beautiful in the garden with its wide, maroon-tinged leaves. THE ARROWS COOKBOOK
The walls were a dull maroon colour, and made up of hard terraplate.
Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.
Some, like Budyonny and Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, were marooned in the past, preferring horses to tanks. Deathride
He looked quite dashing in knee-high boots, maroon pants and vest, and a clean white shirt, with a feathered hat to top it all off.
She cut a colourful figure by pairing the fringed white bikini top with maroon bottoms. The Sun
Snow and ice left many people marooned in their homes, unable to get to the shops. The Sun
Last Sunday was officially declared a day of no rest in Ballinrobe, as local painters and decorators coloured the town in maroon and yellow.
Her sweatshirt was the proper colors: maroon with her name embroidered in gold on the left breast. She’s So Dead to Us
The boat is solid and the varnished deck is the colour scheme my boat would be, with a tanbark sail to set it off, golden-wood mast and a strong, solid colour for the hull - navy, olive or maroon would be nice. Archive 2009-07-01
In the first image, Runggye Adak is pictured looking down at the ground, leaning towards a maroon-robed monk, his bearing still dignified, before he is taken away. Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
I grabbed my ski mountaineering gear, he kick-started his enduro bike, and riding double we motorcycled up the jeep trail to snowline on East Maroon Pass.
The warm and stylish interior includes bar stools, bistro style tables and maroon leather banquettes to sit at.
The floor was carpeted a deep maroon, small vases woven into the pattern, each vase with a bouquet of curling flowers. STONE CITY
The wrap colors include a multi blue, black, white, red, turquoise, purple, jade green, navy blue, gold and a maroon type of color.
There was a little switcheroo played on SNL this past Saturday with Maroon 5 trying on Gym Class Heroes' hit "Stereo Hearts," Travie McCoy representing GCH. Mike Ragogna: Maroon 5 with Travie McCoy on SNL, Plus Chatting with Vince Gill, Trombone Shorty and Paul Rogers
Overlapping this loose weave are two sets of maroon lines.
Another way to enhance the deep maroon is to partner it with the soft creamy yellow of grasses and other spires of maroon. Times, Sunday Times
She cut a colourful figure by pairing the fringed white bikini top with maroon bottoms. The Sun
The flat, star-shaped flowers are 1-cm across, range in color from maroon in the sun to pale beige in the shade, and are displayed in loose cymes in the leaf axils.
This brought out the full particulars of the affair, and Tom listened to the end of a rather excited account of what had happened that afternoon -- both on the island where Helen and Ruth had been "marooned" and here at the camp -- together with the suspicions and curiosity about the island which had been dubbed the Kingdom of Pipes. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
It's fresh and these are my two favorite colors, she says, referring to her maroon vest and mustard shirt. NYDN Rss
The girls wore gray sweaters or maroon blazers over their white middy blouses.
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
It banned the supply to the public of aerial shells, aerial maroons, shells-in-mortar and maroons-in-mortar, bangers, mini-rockets and fireworks of ‘erratic flight’.
During the storm we were marooned in a cabin miles from town.
Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.
In Trafford, the silence was signalled by the firing of maroons at Streford, Sale, Altrincham, Urmston and Partington, where services also took place.
Another way to enhance the deep maroon is to partner it with the soft creamy yellow of grasses and other spires of maroon. Times, Sunday Times
I can wear any blue - like most people - and many greens and purples that tend to blue and not maroon.
In deeper, murkier pools, such as that where I overturn and become marooned with a seven foot freshy, dwell crocodiles awaiting their next meal.
He wore a maroon prison jumpsuit that appeared to be covering a bulletproof vest. The Sun
Even University of Minnesota fans dressed in maroon and gold were rooting for neighboring Iowa State, which has three players from Minnesota on its roster. USATODAY.com - Women's Basketball - Washington vs. Iowa St.
Atop his head was a thick mat of dark red hair that bordered on maroon.
The ones they would most like to have if they were to be marooned on a desert island. The Sun
She cut a colourful figure by pairing the fringed white bikini top with maroon bottoms. The Sun
When cut, these showed beautiful maroon-red zoned patterns.
Fulham are in danger of being marooned at the bottom of the table. Times, Sunday Times
A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
He should be available for his final game in maroon and gold. Minnesota - Team Notes
In colon cancer, melena or maroon-colored stools tend to be a symptom of tumors in the ascending or transverse colon.
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
Journalists who flew ten nautical miles up the river mouth saw between 500 and 1000 marooned people.
She had been wearing a red and black sweater, a black mini-skirt and maroon tights.
Bells burst forth into joyful chimes, maroons were exploded, bands paraded the streets followed by cheering crowds of soldiers and civilians and London generally gave itself up wholeheartedly to rejoicing.
The crowning moment of my skirmishes with style was when I went out in a maroon sweatshirt on impulse and wasn't laughed at in the street.
Mixed with other, deep maroon flowers and streaks of grey foliage plants, scarlet blooms drift through borders.
The rest of the people are students, clad in requisite orange and maroon. Waldo Jaquith - Four scenes from Virginia Tech.
Lived out as the grandfather has lived it, such a desire maroons the self in heroic narrative.
Fulham are in danger of being marooned at the bottom of the table. Times, Sunday Times
A small pale brown and maroon-chestnut coloured duck, the whistling teals appear feeble.
Many people have been marooned on rooftops or high ground. Times, Sunday Times
They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
On display were a riot of classy colours, gold, silver, maroons and black.
It had carved beams around the windows and eaves painted a deep maroon. Times, Sunday Times
She led him, silently, to a large room with maroon curtains and cherry furniture.
Some officious little bean counter marooned behind a desk, talking down his nose at me. CHAMELEON
Although the depth of petal colour will vary, it is usually a deep shade of maroon, brown or near black.
Effectively, then, you have condemned a citizen, without trial, to a penalty that doesn't even exist in Canadian law -- marooning. Archive 2009-03-01
But whether he had attempted the destruction of the three other boys by "marooning" them upon the rocks -- as their parents firmly believed -- or whether he had himself withdrawn from their company simply because he did not like them, was never known. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
On the way to South America, the ship sinks and he is marooned on an island.
His denim jeans were well-worn but clean and he was wearing a plain, blue cotton jacket over a maroon sweatshirt.
In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded.
The surrounding ottomans are covered in deep-maroon silk and fringed with gold-dyed tassels.
He was always seen in a maroon-colored coat with gilt buttons, half-tight breeches of poult-de-soie with gold buckles, a white waistcoat without embroidery, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar, -- a last vestige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him to show a neck like that of the sleekest abbe. An Old Maid
The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps.
The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot. Times, Sunday Times
They are covered in thick oil and encaustic in a range of gray-blues and maroon.
These cards can be stowed in small maroon folders courtesy of American Girl Place, imprinted with the phrase ‘Pocket full of wishes.’
She cut a colourful figure by pairing the fringed white bikini top with maroon bottoms. The Sun
That episode, in turn, came less than 18 months after rival protesters took over Bangkok's main international airport for days, marooning hundreds of thousands of travelers and jolting trade. Bangkok Flood Adds to City's Woes
He is a man apparently without qualities or talent; a man like so many other men marooned in the past, ill-equipped and uneducated for change.
A neat maroon carpet with gold lining was on the floor.
Medium-intense, cherry-red color with a maroon rim.
In 1884 four sailors were marooned in a lifeboat after their ship sank. The Sun
The schools new colours are maroon, royal blue and yellow.
The markings are large blotches and spots, often forming zones or caps about the larger end, where they seem almost always to be most conspicuous, as they vary in colour from an intense burnt-sienna which is almost black, through a dingy maroon, and again to a dull, somewhat pale reddish brown; here and there individual eggs exhibit a hair-line or two, or a hieroglyphic-like mark, but these are the exceptions. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Seemingly marooned in the bottom three, we were nine points adrift of that fourth spot. The Sun
The transmission pole and wires would be hot property for the purple-rumped sunbirds, stunning in their emerald green, purple-maroon and canary yellow outfits.
The study team suspect the bird evolved into a separate island race having been blown astray and marooned on Wangi Wangi, part of the Tukangbesi archipelago.
She found herself in a rather tatty entrance hallway, with new maroon flock wallpaper and, less impressively, peeling paint and worn carpeting.
I tell the bar girl to fetch him the good stuff from the small casks, not the maroon vinegar we serve the churls, then sit next to him.
how could i? they're slick, pewter-colored "sateen" sheets, 230 thread count, 100% cotton and they look positively LAVISH with our maroon velvet comforter. god, it's gorgeous. and i deserve these sheets, dammit i do. since moriarty6 and i have lived together, we've had nothing but cheap-assed Tar-JHAY sheets that annually fall apart at the seams--and once in awhile, a woman who has already telefiled her tax return deserves something nice. she deserves new bedding. Saturday pointlessness
At the time he had a goatee beard and was wearing a waist length jacket with maroon coloured sleeves, dark coloured jeans and dark coloured footwear.
He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie.
Tonight Amee donned her maroon Kathmandu dress and cooked up a scrummy dessert of stewed apples and pears with cinnamon and pepitas and lime peel and cloves.
My heart twisted painfully and the marble floor below me seemed to spin into an incomprehensible blur of beige and maroon.
Thousands died and ships were marooned two miles inland. The Sun
Some officious little bean-counter marooned behind a desk, talking down his nose at me. CHAMELEON
The external colour of the derm of the nítida varies from maroon colour to that of rust, and that of the periderm (where not covered with lichens) is brown.
Unfortunately, my spiritual search soon ran aground on the shoals of alcoholism, and would remain marooned there until May, 1993, when I got sober.
A very dark red, if pure or crimson, is called maroon; if brownish, chestnut or chocolate. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma
I don't know colours like maroon, Dude, what is maroon anyway, it's a reddy colour isn't it?
What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark. Times, Sunday Times
A few flags waved from their poles, sporting the Institution's signature colors - maroon and white.

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