sequester

Example Sentences

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Each company that chooses to stay private sequesters wealth creation in the hands of a select few, rather than giving Main Street investors a chance to take a stake in the success of American enterprise.

From Barron's

Common museum ethical standards require income from deaccessioned art to be sequestered, used only for other art purchases, as well as for direct care of the collection.

From Los Angeles Times

“We want to give these students just an idea that they live in a special area, and the role these trees play in sequestering carbon from our atmosphere.”

From Los Angeles Times

Arbor hopes to take that waste, blast it through a “vegetarian rocket engine” to produce energy, then sequester all of the carbon the process would generate underground.

From Los Angeles Times

Holmes’ words were a quintessential expression of “eugenics,” a pseudoscientific notion that social problems can be alleviated by focusing on heredity, and sequestering, forcibly sterilizing or even murdering those whose genetic heritage jeopardizes civilization.

From Los Angeles Times