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Example sentences for: maroon

How can you use “maroon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Chatfield, Columbine's traditional rival, welcomed their guests with banners and signs including, "We Are One," featuring Columbine's colors, blue and white, and Chatfield's colors, maroon and white, entwined in a heart.
Several of the resulting paintings are on view in the National Gallery show, scumbled swaths of deep red, maroon, and black.
Standard inexpensive clothes in stores--sweaters and skirts, let's say--came in dark blue, dark green, and maybe brown or maroon, the traditional colors of country sportswear favored by the Ivy League, and in tweedy mixtures or pale versions of the same.
Wearing a brown jacket and maroon tie, Gore was more aggressive than Bradley, taking questions from the audience 20 minutes before the cameras rolled and charging that Bradley's health-care plan would eat the entire $1 trillion (over 10 years) surplus.
Or luxuriate in the "Bohemian Baroque": "terracotta, gold, salmon, and maroon chenille tapestry that is reminiscent of an earlier century" (I wonder if she knows which one).