| She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort. |
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| As the clock inched towards midnight a storm struck the island marooning everyone there. |
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| The book is a tedious affair that meanders along the journey of its plot before marooning us in an improbably happy ending. |
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| 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. |
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| It caused some trains on the A subway line to get stuck in Queens near Kennedy Airport, marooning hundreds of passengers for more than six hours. |
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| They were so good at their work that the stairs collapsed, marooning other looters on the first storey of the police station. |
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| The production defused the social and psychological tensions of the piece by dressing all the characters in kooky costumes and marooning them in Martian landscapes. |
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| The most famous literary reference to marooning probably occurs in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in which Ben Gunn is left marooned on the island for three years. |
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| The outcome of marooning was usually fatal, but William Greenaway and some men loyal to him survived being marooned, as did pirate captain Edward England. |
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| The pirate articles of captains Bartholomew Roberts and John Phillips specify marooning as a punishment for cheating one's fellow pirates or other offenses. |
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| Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island. |
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