How to Use maroon in a Sentence

maroon

1 of 2 noun
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Synonyms for maroonnext
  • For the edgy shot, Jenner rocked wet hair and a sheer crop top, as well as a maroon sarong.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • To round out the look, Stewart put on a pair of maroon pumps, with her hair styled in a sleek, wet bun.
    — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Kate wore a maroon suit paired with a light pink top and matching purse.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Meghan, dressed in a maroon suit, took a seat facing the class with her children’s book, The Bench, in hand.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In a Boomerang, Saldaña holds hands with two of her sons and wears a maroon skirt with a black tank top.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • The finishing touch was a pair of square-toe maroon leather boots.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Model Salem Mitchell was spotted in one of the colors of the season, a deep maroon in the form of a lengthy dress.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Oversized maroon pants are matched with a blue striped shirt.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • For 2024, shake things up a bit and try out subtler shades of red like maroon and merlot.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
  • As for Texas A&M, don’t ask, at least to someone wearing maroon and a shocked look.
    — Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The spicy, bitter, maroon-colored drink is served in an IV bag that drips over a big square of ice.
    — Dallas News, 11 July 2022
  • As for glam, Bella had a glossy blowout, bronzy makeup, and a deep maroon lip.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Taylor Swift just added a stroke of color to Swifties’ day — some maroon.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Many of the staff at AJ's new school also had on the maroon and white of Robb Elementary.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The country's been debased by this Looney Tunes maroon.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Don’t ever wear a khaki pant with a rich red or maroon top.
    — John Paul Brammer, SELF, 14 Sep. 2023
  • She was last seen wearing black pants and a maroon jacket, the statement said.
    — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Macht donned a black suit with a gray vest and a maroon tie to match his wife’s ensemble.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For her second outfit, Williams wore a long-sleeve maroon shirt that had tan stripes.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • On the Lacoste website, Venus Williams wears it with a maroon blazer.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • When the students wore their maroon mariachi T-shirts outside of school, Uvalde cheered them on.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • The Aggies are wearing their classic maroon and white home kit.
    — al, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The dominance of maroon in the Cricket Hall of Fame is more than an aesthetic choice.
    — Leo Mirani, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The Poosh founder draped her bright red dress over her baby bump while Barker sported a maroon suit.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The Oscar-winning actor looked suave in a maroon suit with a light-pink button-down.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • One example slated for the garden is the jack-in-the-pulpit, a plant with green and maroon striped flowers and red berries.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Dawn Rose, 48, sat at her kitchen table across from the family’s glossy maroon, 6-foot tall gun safe.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Moreover, shoppers can buy it in 18 fun hues like maroon, hot pink, green, and winter white.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As for Chopra’s beauty look, the actor wore glittery light brown eye shadow and a shiny maroon lip.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 June 2023
  • The velvet dress in a rich shade of maroon had plenty of details to increase its head-turning effect like a cut out at the stomach and a leg slit.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
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maroon

2 of 2 verb
  • For 12 days, we were marooned at home — with out-of-town company, no less.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Rosewood Bermuda is set on a sprawling, private stretch of pink-sand beach, the perfect spot to be marooned for a long weekend.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • Sixteen Americans were marooned on an island in the South China Sea.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This season, Maggie and Negan are marooned on the island of Manhattan, which has been cut off from the rest of the country during the apocalypse.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2023
  • Grace has an intriguing story line about her ambivalence as a mother, but it’s marooned in a sea of nonsense.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The video sparked fears that Russia might maroon Vande Hei, who earlier this week broke the record for the single longest spaceflight by an American explorer, aboard the space station.
    — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The narrator is asked to care for a macaw by friends of a friend who are marooned in California, moving into their apartment only to learn that the former bird-sitter, a troubled young man, has moved in, too.
    — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But more than two years after the party was marooned on that barren speck of land, a rescue operation found Blackjack to be the sole survivor of the Wrangel Island expedition.
    — Natalie Schachar, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • So many actors were marooned in their San Fernando Valley ranchlands that the Oscar ceremony was postponed for a week.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Hansel Enmanuel knew just what to do when his teammate DeMarcus Sharp was marooned in the lane after picking up his dribble, surrounded by defenders.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • On Sunday, residents weary from the monthlong battle against rising water were preparing to be marooned.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But what about being marooned on another planet, with only a thin barrier separating you and your peers from the vacuum of space?
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2023
  • Endemol Shine Australia will produce the new adventure dating show, in which couples matched by experts are marooned on a deserted island and left to fend for themselves for three weeks.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In the latest dramatic interaction between orcas and boats, a pod of killer whales left a yacht marooned in Gibraltar, but a sailor said the interaction didn't strike him as being aggressive.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Of course, news has spread that a healer is in prison, and since there's turmoil in the streets of Wilmington, the governor has requested Claire's presence on his ship, where he and his pregnant wife are currently marooned for safety purposes.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 June 2023
  • The 35-year-old school principal ended up on what may go down as the worst tribe in the history of the game, as the original Lulu lost every single immunity challenge as well as the marooning competition.
    — EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In Triangle of Sadness, wealthy vacationers are marooned after a storm (and violent bouts with sea-sickness and food poisoning).
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In the book, which has been previously adapted as films, schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The 60-year-old said that means instead of enjoying the convenience of the public transportation that inspired her to move from East County to National City eight years ago, she is sometimes marooned miles from home because of inconsistent service.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • Your tribe lost every single immunity challenge, and the marooning challenge.
    — EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Cottom was cast for the 44th season of the CBS reality television show, where contestants are marooned on an island with no cell phones, no contact with the outside world and fighting for basic necessities to survive.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2023
  • Wright, a founder of modern population genetics, was intrigued by an apparent paradox: If a population of organisms managed to reach the top of a small hill, they would be marooned there, surrounded by worse states.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Advertisement The most solemn observances ultimately yield to everyday concerns, as Greenberg demonstrates with a study of a religious statue marooned in a parking lot.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The men, marooned on a desolate island, descended into murderous anarchy.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Western countries deployed sanctions that unplugged Russia from international markets, marooning the Russian assets at Euroclear, which reinvested the money and collected interest income on it.
    — Alexander Saeedy, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Critics say Bass' plan just perpetuates another cycle: Homeless people being marooned in temporary housing for extended periods.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • For 12 days, we were marooned at home — with out-of-town company, no less.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Rosewood Bermuda is set on a sprawling, private stretch of pink-sand beach, the perfect spot to be marooned for a long weekend.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • Sixteen Americans were marooned on an island in the South China Sea.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This season, Maggie and Negan are marooned on the island of Manhattan, which has been cut off from the rest of the country during the apocalypse.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2023

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