quarantine
Example Sentences
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It needs relief from the oil quarantine and from U.S. restrictions on foreign investment.
We were not yet in the camp proper but in a kind of quarantine compound outside.
From Literature
Before takeoff, shippers deal with complex veterinary clearances, quarantines and equine paperwork.
As an X-file from an earlier era, when fringe theories about UFOs, crop circles or the Loch Ness monster were quarantined as tabloid fodder, the lore around the wilderness footage seems quaint by today’s standards.
Each tortoise underwent an extensive quarantine and was microchipped for identification before their release, it said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
