Sample sentences for QUARANTINE

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isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

The ranch was quarantined due to fears of mad cow disease.

There, the story of the quarantine and its costs grew even more vivid to me.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
It had been three days after they had come back, three days during which all of them had been quarantined.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
Unless the groundlings have added a whorehouse to that quarantine island they leased us.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
The boy Roger had arrived home with measles; they were all in quarantine.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
Ever since the island had been used to quarantine the sick during the Roman plague of A.D. 1656, it had been thought to have mystic healing properties.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Still there was no quarantine, no official admission.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
We were not At in the camp proper but in a kind of quarantine compound outside.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
On Wednesday they found out that our naval blockade was in effect and that fourteen Soviet ships were nearing the quarantine line.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
He didn't approve of quarantine for AIDS.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
At the Fleet landing field I went through the exit gate with my nose in the air and strode up to the quarantine desk to have my orders stamped.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
In the picture he'd been asleep in bed, just as he was now Had he been quarantined, infected with some sleeping sickness?
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The corporal marched the men to a quarantine area, where there stood a rickety canopy.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
They set up this crazy elaborate testing system and have tried really hard to have quarantined areas.
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
Even at the worst, I'll have proved that man can't be kept in quarantine forever.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers.
John F. Kennedy -- Cuban Missle Crisis Speech
They were thinking of ways to isolate and quarantine and survive.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
The freezer smelled so bad it would have been quarantined if health officials ever caught wind of it!
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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