Object

• man: He meets an old man marooned by the traffic.

• people: My theory of a marooned people seeking rescue ( and therefore erecting the moai statues ) remains plausible.

• family: The farm was completely cut off and the immediate problem was to get food and blankets through to the marooned families.

Preposition: on

• island: Actually, being marooned on an island with only that book to read is kind of my dream in life.

• planet: I'm not like you, and I'd get scared if I was marooned on a strange planet.

Modifying Another Word

• now: But in Lesotho, a kilowatt of electricity and additional hot water could transform lives now marooned by poverty, team members said.

• there: A part of me may always be marooned there.

Modifies a noun

• cloth: Fin in fine dust jacket First edition, second issue in maroon cloth.

• leather: Each volume is bound in maroon leather over marbled boards.

• shirt: He did once get a fragment of canvas which pictured a quaffing male in a maroon shirt.

• paint: My blood drained and joined the maroon paint that was all over the floor.

Preposition: in

• middle: Here was an ' island race ' marooned in the middle of the Atlantic, who could not swim.

• color: The outer part of the pod is almost maroon in color.