QUARANTINE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for QUARANTINE, such as:

1. The ship is still in rigorous quarantine.
2. She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine.
3. There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine.
4. The eight elephants were to destine for zoos in Sydney and Melbourne have been in quarantine in Thailand since last October.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUARANTINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quarantine
 n.  isolation of person or ship to prevent spread of infection; condition of enforced isolation
Classic Sentence:
1  I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty-eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 84. Beauchamp.
2  There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
Example Sentence:
1  The eight elephants were to destine for zoos in Sydney and Melbourne have been in quarantine in Thailand since last October.
2  Part of the work for the penguins while they are in quarantine is re-establishing a social order, as they do in the wild.
3  She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine.
4  The ship is still in rigorous quarantine.