Example sentences for: quarantine

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

  • Book -- Quarantine , by Jim Crace;

  • Eighty thousand books were placed in quarantine in October, then sent to a local deep-freeze facility where a weeklong sub-zero treatment was used to exterminate the lice.

  • 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.


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