How do you use the word "quarantine" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "quarantine" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "quarantine": There is a 21-day quarantine for people suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus. The contagious persons were placed in quarantine.

Quarantine Meaning

/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA period of 40 days, particularly

nounA period of 40 days, particularly, The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.

Sentence Examples

There is a 21-day quarantine for people suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus.

The contagious persons were placed in quarantine.

Two weeks quarantine?! Oh my gosh! Together with Mary at home?!

CEFR Practice Quiz

The traveler was put in ____ to stop the contagious disease from spreading.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

All travelers arriving from the affected region were required to ____ for fourteen days on arrival.

Word Origin & History

From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, even not a Quarantine of Days only, but Soixantine, not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer." — 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, page 235:

"Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security." — 1818, Alexander Ranken, The History of France, volume IV, page 233:

"This dreadful malady might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain number of weeks." — 1796, Edward Darwin, Zoonomia, volume II, page 265:

"The lady stared; but a single question elicited the fatal truth—the vessel was under quarantine, and once on board there was no quitting it." — 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:

"‘... these people are always howling. Never happy otherwise... the French people. They’re always at it. As to Marseilles, we know what Marseilles is. It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. It couldn’t exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other—victory or death, or blazes, or something.’ ‘Allong and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting ‘em up in quarantine!’ ‘Tiresome enough,’ said the other." — 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 12:

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