Sentence examples for marooned us from inspiring English sources

What about the spectacular body rash I got from eating English oysters, or the nasty incident with the camel in Morocco, or the tremendous flood that marooned us halfway up a mountain in France?

One afternoon, Tragic Bus tragically died on the highway, marooning us for three hours on a pigs-and-pineapples farm in the middle of ninguna parte translation: nowhere), while we waited for a relief vehicle to arrive.

Snowden has since fled Hong Kong for Moscow, where he is reportedly marooned while resisting US attempts to extradite him to face charges under the Espionage Act.

But a combination of denial, apathy, thrift or (sigh) a lower-floor location marooned the rest of us.

There is a bit of bosky set-apartness – that is all that this artist gives us, a marooned space within a glade.

Stopping too soon might leave us literally hanging, marooned on the cable between platforms.

The idea is that this ersatz house – and sometimes it's even a house inside a house – should be an object that encloses us, that we get lost inside, that makes us feel profoundly uncomfortable to be marooned in.

It presents us initially with two lovers, Robyn and Helen, marooned on an island after a boating accident.

We're seated at probably the worst table in the house, marooned beside a glaringly lit service corridor whose door chills us with every swing.

Oh and a Toubou tribesman told us about how a drug trafficking convoy got marooned in the desert by another tribesman, and then he phoned in a ransom demand to the owner of the convoy back in Agadez.

Ira Flatow and I will be marooned on the abandoned island of California, and only one of us will return.