quarantine

Example Sentences

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It needs relief from the oil quarantine and from U.S. restrictions on foreign investment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

They have been in quarantine at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as they await blast-off.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

But with no money for quarantine or medications, there isn’t much they can do, so they expect the outbreak to get worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

US officials said the ship - named Aquila II - was operating in defiance of a US "quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

In the day, I minister to the dying in the quarantine camp, which hath a sweet miasma so foul it can scarce be borne.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson