Example sentences for: quarantine

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

  • 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.

  • Book -- Quarantine , by Jim Crace;

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

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

  • 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."


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