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Example sentences for "marooned"

Lexicographically close words:
marmoset; marmosets; marmot; marmots; maroon; marooning; marplot; marque; marquee; marquees
  1. His two companion spies are marooned for the winter on Charlton Island.

  2. The little boat with the marooned crew came climbing after.

  3. Two of the six white men prisoners; two others marooned on the sloop and hors du combat, at least temporarily; two still at large and in a condition to do mischief, but at present entirely ignorant of the plight of their comrades.

  4. Not waiting to see whether or not the sentinel would succeed in establishing communication with his marooned companions, Percy ran silently up the beach.

  5. Then, too, he remembered that the dead man's two companions who marooned him on his own ship had probably carried out their intention of returning and carrying off the precious hoard.

  6. And I began to run toward the anchorage, my terrors all forgotten; while, close at my side, the marooned man in his goat-skins trotted easily and lightly.

  7. Marooned three years agone," he continued, "and lived on goats since then, and berries and oysters.

  8. Right now they would be anxiously waiting for signal flares to light up, to spring up like signal fires on a lonely island where a marooned man has, at last, sighted a ship on the horizon.

  9. Maybe there'd be a penalty and they'd be marooned to stay on Earth for a while.

  10. May I ask if you young gentlemen are the rescuers I have been hoping to see during the three or four weeks that I have been marooned on this peninsula which nobody seems ever to visit?

  11. I found myself marooned here, and naturally I wanted to establish communication with the mainland again—or the possibility of such communication.

  12. He is used to finding his way in the woods, and it is certain that he thoroughly explored Quasi during the time he was marooned here and flying his distress signal.

  13. The next moment the lifeboat shot away from the side of the wreck, leaving the Man Who Was Afraid marooned upon her deck.

  14. The two brothers are marooned on that rotten wreck!

  15. Here they were, marooned on a deserted island, with no food and but little shelter, and with only two pistols and a shotgun between them.

  16. The hoarseness which followed his shouting when marooned on White Islands was gone and his notes were as clear as a bell.

  17. Alvin and Chester told of their school experiences, and finally Mike related his adventure when marooned on the lonely island well out toward the Atlantic and his friends found him after they had given him up as drowned.

  18. Jim and Charity were marooned in a sleeping castle.

  19. The spectacle of the night was as dream-like as the rest; for he remembered nothing of the gunboat which had rescued and marooned him.

  20. Marooned among the Hay-Fields, he stopped at a Farm House and took a long chance on some Well-Water, dipped in a Gourd from the Moss-Covered Bucket.

  21. Loretta was marooned so far from the Live Ones that she couldn't wig- wag for Help.

  22. In yon sea-chest be the lawful shares of all the woesome lads he marooned this day.

  23. The wind and tide were favorable to carrying the cask in the direction of the little patch of sea-washed sand upon which was marooned the solitary young mariner, Joe Hawkridge.

  24. It was a situation excessively awkward for the marooned company but nevertheless open to parley and argument.

  25. The Royal James coasted along outside of them under shortened sail but discovered nothing to indicate a party of marooned seamen.

  26. His only regret was that poor Joe Hawkridge had been marooned before he could share this golden adventure.

  27. This trim little snow was making to the southward in fancied security, having picked up a landfall, as the marooned pirates conjectured.

  28. It was a burning grudge and a private quarrel, and fuel was added to the flame by the tidings that a score or more of seamen had been mercilessly marooned to perish because of their suspected preference for Captain Stede Bonnet.

  29. The boy was confident that this was the New England coasting vessel in which Ned Rackham and his pirates had appeared off Cherokee Inlet and had carried the marooned seamen from the sandy cay.

  30. Moreover, in his hands were the lives of Joe Hawkridge and those other marooned seamen, as he had every reason to believe.

  31. Jack Cockrell was firmly convinced that Blackbeard must have recognized him that day in the swamp while Joe felt no less certain that he was marked for death because he had been one of the party of marooned mutineers.

  32. The marooned wretches could scarce credit their amazing good fortune but a grave, slow-spoken fellow who had been a carpenter's mate in the Revenge thought the rejoicing premature.

  33. There was fierce protest among the marooned pirates but the carpenter's mate gruffly demanded to know if they wished to be carried into the harbor and turned over to Blackbeard.

  34. It disappointed them to lack the twenty men whom they had expected to find marooned but this made them no less eager for battle.

  35. They were marooned until spring at least.

  36. Like this, ancient travelers of the surface of the sea were herded by pirates to walk the plank, or be put ashore, marooned upon some fair desert island of the tropic Spanish main.

  37. I caught a last vague glimpse of the huddled group of marooned passengers, staring up at us.

  38. They were carrying up caskets of food and the equipment which was to be given the marooned passengers.

  39. Waiting now to be marooned on an uninhabited asteroid roaming in space.

  40. Bad weather, in the auspicious period, marooned us for three weeks.

  41. Do you think I ought to call the attention of the Captain to that largish lady on our left, who seems to be marooned upon a rock, and signalling to us for help?


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marooned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.