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Definition of quarantine:

  • (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
  • (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
  • (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons;

Sentence Examples:

The tug from quarantine dropped astern, and the French yacht took her place.

Here are a large hospital for mariners and the quarantine burying-ground.

If the sick dog, on the other hand, be one of a kennel of dogs, then quarantine must be adopted.

In consequence our house has been quarantined; and while I have felt myself obliged to come down to the depot, I do not feel that I ought to expose you to the possibility of infection, and I therefore send you this by another hand.

Embargoes, tariffs, quarantine, and all other laws, keep men from doing as they please.

He was almost the only traveler from London or the east that the authorities would allow, during that dreadful time, within the city boundaries; even natives returning home were obliged to stay outside in quarantine for three months.

Why did he not at this time hoist his quarantine flag and warn every one that he was dangerous to come near?

Parts uh the country was quarantined for scab, and I went way around them places.

Coming from the dreary monotony of the quarantine-house, this sight made a peculiar impression upon me.

I found the arrangements in the old quarantine-building rather more comfortable than those in the new; the establishment is moreover nearer the town, so that it is easier to obtain the necessaries of life.

Quarantine against malarial fever is much like quarantining against the toothache.

These regulations positively forbid the captain and the pilot to allow any person, whether of the crew or passengers, to quit the vessel until they shall have passed examination at the quarantine ground, under the risk of incurring a severe penalty.

Because he wanted to buy four oxen at a cheaper price, he tried desperately to abrogate quarantine regulations.

On his return, Carl reported two pensions, one quarantined for diphtheria, one for scarlet fever.

They point out the indirect ways in which this contagion can spread exactly as any other can, but insist that its control is enormously complicated by the fact that the victims of these diseases are most unwilling to be designated and quarantined.

During an epidemic in a small Southern town every infected house was put under quarantine.

"They're all in the infirmary, and the whole shop has been quarantined."

He read with amazed and offended eyes that he was temporarily in temper quarantine.

Did I not bring you safely out from that quarantine, as you besought me?

Though the actuality of the quarantine fell far short of the expectant fears, still there was a mighty turmoil.

There were sixty-three people in the tenement when they clapped on the quarantine.

I have established a perfect quarantine about my hog lot, and it has never been broken.

Care must be taken to maintain an absolute quarantine between the sick and well hogs.

If cholera breaks out in the neighborhood the farmer should maintain a strict quarantine against the infected herds.

Hoist the signal for quarantine, and that you are charged with dispatches.

He was going to establish a sort of political quarantine to keep out European influences.

Really the quarantine party had a most idyllic time.

Proposals to quarantine and placard all syphilis are in the same category, though seriously entertained by some.

We had not the pleasure, however, of visiting the beloved old city; for having some half dozen cocoa-nuts on board, the remainder of small stores of the voyage, a vigilant officer stopped us at the quarantine ground.

Several ships, chafing under the restraint of quarantine, were "firing signals" at the guard-ship.

Quarantine is also the best and safest thing for the patient, because it keeps him quiet and at rest until he has completely recovered, and until all danger that the poison of the disease will attack his lungs or heart or kidneys is over.

He was in one of the quarantine hog-corrals, his sleeves rolled up, a puzzled look of worry puckering his boyish face.

The quarantine appears to have been an effectual preventive.

Germany employs yellow buoys to mark boundaries of quarantine stations.

This was just what the quarantine captain wanted, and the dove of peace began to shake its plumage.

He meant to detain the yacht in quarantine.

It was not a severe or alarming attack, and all she wanted was to be let alone; but there was enough of sore throat and other symptoms to prolong the quarantine, and Lady Adela could no longer be excluded from giving her aid.

When the woman reported the result of the search as being fruitless, the man was satisfied, and we were ordered with the rest through many more examinations and ceremonies before we should be established under the quarantine, for that it was.

The fortnight in quarantine was not an episode; it was an epoch, divisible into eras, periods, events.

All were removed from the infected stalls, and put into quarantine.

The liner did not reach quarantine until after sundown, hence remained there through the night.

Into that infected place, to be shut up in quarantine with no one knew what!

Modern maritime quarantine demands that ships shall not carry vermin that are themselves plague-carriers.

Bill Underwood, you get a posse of fifty men and quarantine this camp for booze.

The captain at once went on shore, and returned with the satisfactory intelligence that the passengers would be allowed to land on the following morning, though they would be kept in quarantine till all fear of infection had passed away.

This lucid politician finds an old law, let us say, about keeping lepers in quarantine.

He should be reasoned with, and if he will not quit it until he is able to support a wife, and to know who he loves, and the difference between love and passion, he should be quarantined or put in a convent erected on purpose for such cases.

The quarantine expires to-day, however; and she drives here, on her way back into Northamptonshire, to-morrow.

Shipping quarantine was put on his company the very next week, the camp was closed to visitors, and all passes annulled.

He had hoped to get one more trip home, and she had wanted to see the camp, had said that perhaps when the weather got warmer she might run down some day with his mother, but now the quarantine was on and that was out of the question.

This missionary died; and it was while shut away from every one during the time of quarantine that I had the following experience: I awoke suddenly one night feeling greatly troubled for one in Canada.

The convent was just above the spot where the quarantine ground was situated.

The temperance reformation has no quarantine to fence out the infected.

Immediately an elaborate quarantine procedure was developed to take care of any possible eventuality.

Once she might have been a danger to be kept out like a pest, or barricaded in quarantine.

She was at once ordered into quarantine, and to hoist the "yellow jack" at the fore.

It was late in April before this was accomplished, and the necessary quarantine of the absentees well over.

The absurdity of cordons and quarantines is becoming daily more evident.

A line of sentinels were stationed around the village and a strict quarantine was maintained.

I did most of my voting on this proposition by proxy, while I was having the measles in quarantine.

Vigilance and a quarantine have also kept from the orange the scale which has been so annoying in some other localities.

At her mizzen-peak flew the American ensign, and at the fore-truck the ominous quarantine flag.

Bored to death with the monotony of life in quarantine, the smallest event was to him a matter of interest.

It is not common in grown people, and while it should not arouse suspicion in children, it is so uncommon in adults that a suspected case is probably a mild case of smallpox, and should always be quarantined as such.

There, a quarantine on all the dogs in the country, that is, the strict enforcement of laws requiring muzzling, has eliminated the disease except on the borders of other countries where such quarantine is not enforced.

The health officer visited the house, offered to use antitoxin, which was refused, and instructed quarantine.

The community quarantined the lepers in waste places by stoning them when they crossed bounds.

When they say any biological importation will be quarantined and examined, they mean Confederation citizens too!

When I was quarantined once at Marseilles, I got to work immediately at carving a wooden wonder of loose rings on a stick, and got so interested in it, that when we were set loose, I "regained my freedom with a sigh," because my toy was unfinished.

Julia appears to be more annoyed than George, and, in fact, for the moment, we have quarantined each other.

The reporters are clamoring to be let loose, but the quarantine still holds.

These results sustain the intelligent action of the quarantine officers who have stripped off the terrors which once hung about the name quarantine, and still do in so many parts of the world and of our own country.

Vessels coming from Jamaica had been quarantined in all the islands, and I found that if I proceeded thither as I proposed, I should be refused permission to land afterwards in any one of the other colonies.

"Although we might as well not have let 'em out of quarantine," the nurse grumbled.

All my family in quarantine with the itch, and I myself experiencing all the agonies.

We ran into the Horseshoe inside of Sandy Hook, trying to get up to the landing, so that if we had very late news to send we could telegraph it from Sandy Hook, instead of Quarantine, which was an hour to the north of us.

It has been proven that strict quarantine and absolute cleanliness are safeguards against its entrance, though, after the frightful plague has once appeared in a place, it is impossible to stamp it out.

Upon returning from a day at the range December 19, the battery was greeted with the news that the regiment was under quarantine and confined to camp on account of a few cases of spinal meningitis discovered that day.

The Penguin Circle was quarantined, and at night Pip-Emma sat alone by the campfire.

Moreover, the islands and the colonies on the continent are learning the value of common consultation and action in such matters as quarantine, and they meet together in annual agricultural conferences.

Then the American authorities declared a quarantine and the cattle could not be brought up until it was lifted.

On my trip to and from the quarantine I passed a procession of bodies going seaward.

Bills of health are necessary where the destination of the ship is a country whose laws require the production of such a bill before the ship is allowed into port, and where, in default of such production, the ship is subjected to quarantine.

We still think of participation in world affairs negatively as a favor we may, if we choose, bestow on less favored nations, or as a mere necessity to keep the plagues of war and tyranny quarantined from our shores.

It was always certain beyond doubt that this disease would spread very extensively, and, in spite of all precautions and the enforcement of whatever quarantine was possible, the mortality rate would be very high.

I was evidently still under quarantine; but the period of my quitting the port was undetermined.

This flag is also hoisted on quarantine stations.

Captain Marengo, who landed at Augusta in Sicily, supposing it to be a friendly land, was required to observe quarantine for twenty-two days, and information was given of the arrival of the vessel to the court, which was at Palermo.

The animal is given a warming and refreshing drink, and is conducted by a clean attendant to the clean quarantine shed.

Both quarantine and surface disinfection are required.

The quarantine shed should be situated in an isolated part of the premises.

Tinder the same Act his Excellency has power to subject all cattle imported into the island to a five days' quarantine.

The officious quarantine guard was still walking up and down in front of the Hopkins residence.

The quarantine had shut her in more rigorously upon herself; there were now no distractions.

In May the small pox made its appearance in the town and strict quarantine regulations were enforced.

Perhaps that was because she was quarantined upstairs, with Lillie convalescent from her attack of the measles.

Several cases of measles had broken out in the past week, and the school doctor had ordered a quarantine.

Said the quarter-master sorrowfully; "have you forgotten that the island is in quarantine?"

It is not deemed expedient here to discuss the vexed question of quarantine.

That a city may escape being overrun by country tramps, their entrance should be quarantined.