Sentence examples for marooned off from inspiring English sources
He retells the accounts of various explorers — a ship's cook marooned off an English whaler; a French adventurer who went native; Herman Melville's uncle; Leo Tolstoy's cousin — and to call those accounts wildly romantic would be an understatement.
Other special pieces have less sacred origins, like the beer tankard depicting ships and a Swedish flag commissioned by a Swedish sailor marooned off Hainan Island in the winter of 1785; the punch bowl, from the same year, painted with a scene of a naval battle from the American Revolutionary War; the colorful dish (c.
The authorities will return to the ship, which is still marooned off the coast, when the weather improves, Colonel Baili said.
South Korea's top economic policymaker said Wednesday that he expected Hanjin Shipping vessels marooned off Long Beach will be able to offload cargo this week.
MAROONED off Africa's western coast, the 150,000 people of São Tomé e Príncipe scrape a living from cocoa, fish, aid and tourism.
14] by the ice breaker Taimyr, which moved only a fraction of a mile toward the four Russian scientists marooned on an ice floe off Greenland.
They were isolated and marooned on the shoreline, waving off the James Caird boat, their very last hope and link to civilisation as it disappeared off into the horizon, not knowing if anyone would ever return and if they themselves would ever meet civilisation again.
The New Yorker, August 14 , 1937P. 9 A friend of ours who found himself marooned on Manhattan this summer has warded off loneliness by going to church.
We don't yet know how much incentive Haymon will have to match clients against non-clients, or to what extent fighters will find themselves marooned on the various television networks, cut off from potentially appealing opponents.
In what may be a first for a long-extinct non-human animal -- and certainly for an extinct creature of such stature -- scientists have assembled the complete genome of the woolly mammoth, gaining insight into why the last surviving population of the great beasts, marooned on an Arctic island off the coast of Russia, may have disappeared. .
To reflect the time spent marooned on an inhospitable world, Khan was given a costume that looked as though it had been scavenged from different items and showed off Montalbán's physique.
