Sample sentences for SEQUESTER

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keep away from others

And the Countess nodded at the sequestered couple.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1

We awaited the verdict in the small anteroom across the hall where witnesses were sequestered before being called in to testify.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
They've left the premises and are sequestered at the airport.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He would then scour the air, looking for happy dreams to replace the ones he had sequestered away.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
A single man, more or less young and not ill-favoured, appears to one who has long been sequestered, and deprived of masculine company.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
And, sequestered in his dark, lonely cell, Daddy is sobbing.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
Eragon quickly sequestered his mind from the touch of the other.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
I leave them and sequester myself in my room to examine Wilhelmina Wyatt's slate.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
And Neleus for a year's term sequestered Melampous' fields and flocks, while he lay bound hand and foot in the keep of Phylakos.
Homer -- The Odyssey
Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
They had been sequestered on the second floor and had speculated before going to bed, said the foreman, that the snowstorm would interrupt the trial.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
We ate the meat all right and were glad to have it, but the trinkets she sequestered in her bedroom, out of sight.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
In returning to labour in this sequestered spot he had anticipated an escape from the chafing of social necessities; yet behold they were here also.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
And the Countess nodded at the sequestered couple.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
If we can't solve it this way, then we'll sequester your family and do as we like from then on.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
The legendary Strategic Air Command has squadrons of B-47 and B-52 bombers ready to launch, the pilots sequestered in secure "Alert" facilities.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
In shadier bower More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph Nor Faunus haunted.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
And Chelise would live there too, beside the library where she would sequester herself and write into the night.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit

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