Example sentences for: quarantine

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

  • We learn that heroin has breached its ghetto quarantine: "[C]hildren of affluence are venturing where once the poor and desperate nodded out.

  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cretan council decided to open a leper colony on the island; whether this was an attempt to force the Turks to leave is open to debate but the disease was rampant on the main island and Spinalónga’s position — offshore yet not too remote — was considered ideal for study of the disease and a quarantine for its sufferers.

  • Off the coast to the south of St. David’s Island is smaller Nonsuch Island, once a quarantine station for sufferers of yellow fever.

  • Veteran political activist Paul Weyrich urged fellow conservatives to "drop out" of society . In a letter posted on his Web site following President Clinton's acquittal, Weyrich said: 1) "the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology"; 2) Republican campaigns for the presidency in such an environment are futile; and 3) to "make sure that we and our children are not infected," conservatives "need some sort of quarantine."

  • Book -- Quarantine , by Jim Crace;


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