quarantine
Example Sentences
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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
They have been in quarantine at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as they await blast-off.
From Barron's
US officials said the ship - named Aquila II - was operating in defiance of a US "quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean".
From BBC
U.S. forces chased down an oil tanker fleeing the quarantine around Venezuela all the way to the Indian Ocean, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday, a monthlong pursuit that ended in the ship’s capture.
The animal hospital said on social media she would be put into quarantine in a tank for a "few weeks".
From BBC
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