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noun

quarantine

CEFR B2

enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

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Six example sentences with quarantine, each labelled with its topic.

  • Venetian ships waited forty days offshore in quarantine before any sailor was allowed to set foot on the quay.

    History

  • Imported seedlings sit in quarantine for a season so that a beetle from another continent never reaches the orchards.

    Environment

  • Her cat spent three weeks in quarantine at the port kennel before the family could collect him.

    Travel

  • The ward placed the two feverish travelers in quarantine until the lab confirmed that neither carried the infection.

    Medicine

  • The health act lets officials order a quarantine, but a judge must review the order within seventy-two hours.

    Law

  • The Apollo astronauts spent three weeks in quarantine after splashdown, in case they had brought back a lunar germ.

    Science

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