Marooned in a sentence

But it was also a time of great resilience as Britons once again invoked the Dunkirk Spirit – then not such a distant memory - and rallied around to rescue marooned neighbours, offer shelter to those made homeless, and food and clothing to those without.

Chinese and Philippine ships have routinely played cat-and-mouse around the shoal as a handful of Filipino troops on the outpost, a marooned and crumbling navy ship, require monthly rations.

Monkey D. Luffy, the wannabe King of the Pirates, and his Straw Hat Crew are marooned on a mysterious island and have to figure out how to make their ship, the Thousand Sunny, seaworthy again.

Were they really going to leave me marooned like this?

Depending on your preference for celebration, Thanksgiving can feel like a marooned holiday.

I got onto the third taxi company and managed to secure a ride for 8.30pm; not ideal, but better than nothing, so I booked it, resigned to our fate of being marooned for a bit longer.

The BRP Sierra Madre, a marooned transport ship which the Philippines' Marines live on as a military outpost, is pictured in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea March 30, 2014.

The calypso song was used for "Marooned," the original "Gilligan's Island" pilot, and it wouldn't be heard by the public until October 16, 1992.

The former TV star has filmed a Channel 5 special called Cast Away, which follows a “celebrity marooned on an inhabited tropical island off the coast of Madagascar for 10 days”.

A Bangladeshi charity has set up a floating hospital turning a small tourist boat into a healthcare facility to provide services to thousands of people affected by this year's devastating floods that marooned millions.

A boat launch is marooned a mile from the far-off glitter of the lake’s edge.

An Wentzel is Night Editor, specialist reporter for Daily Maverick, she went to the US to visit family as the pandemic struck and is currently marooned in the land of the “free”.

But he couldn’t shake how hopeless he felt, marooned from his own sense of purpose.

Fans of Kylo Ren and General Hux could hardly contain their excitement at the announcement of the General Hux issue of are marooned together after crash landing on an unknown planet.

He is roaming the south coast city’s near-deserted streets photographing individuals and families marooned at home as the nation experiences another week of quarantine.

It also probably seems logical that marooned, jobless foreign students should be able to "draw on their savings" whilst the sweatshop kitchens that employ them are closed due to the virus.

It was easier to exploit these commuters since it was at night and they feared they could be marooned in the City.

More than 6,000 students were marooned on a cruise ship at Civitavecchia, north-west Rome, yesterday as two Chinese passengers were tested for coronavirus.

More than a thousand Central American migrants hoping to reach the United States marooned in Guatemala are walking en masse across a river leading to Mexico in an attempt to convince authorities there to allow them passage through the country.

Mr Foley urged Victorians not to travel to Sydney, or risk getting marooned.