Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy, marooned, shell-shocked and becalmed.
Many of these migrants are marooned in distant countries and are in a position of special difficulty.
There must be a breakdown procedure or people may be marooned in the middle of a supermarket or in an isolated lane.
Our proposals to give mandatory rate relief will assist a large number of people who are themselves disadvantaged and in some cases marooned.
This means that families and, as they grow older, pensioners become marooned by their less affluent state and by the decline in public transport.
There are old-age pensioners, disabled people and families who are abandoned and marooned by the lack of bus services.
When the husband takes the car to work as he must—there is no alternative way of travelling—his wife and children are marooned.
The lights can get broken, and that leads to accidents to children, who are as it were marooned in mid-air.
