Write a sentence using the word sequester in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.
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sequester /sɪˈkwɛs tər/
verb (used with an object)
- to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- to remove or separate; banish; exile.
- to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
- Law. to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.
- International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).
- to trap (a chemical in the atmosphere or environment) and isolate it in a natural or artificial storage area: There are processes to sequester carbon from a peer plant’s exhaust gases.
- (Noun) an act or instance of sequestering; separation; isolation.
- sequestration (definition 7): domestic programs starved for cash by the federal sequester.
Origin of sequester
Middle English, Latin 1350-1400
Related forms: sequestrable, adjective
Source: Dictionary.com
hello teacher
this word (sequester) for me is difficult. today I learn new word. Iran courts don,t have jury therefore in Iran (sequester) don,t use. Iran people had experience sequestration through boycott and this events was curl.
While the word sequester is often used in the context of law, it can also be used in other ways, as indicated by definitions 1-3.
1. to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
2. to remove or separate; banish; exile.
3. to keep apart from others; segregate or isolate: The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
Try using it in a sentence!
She is sequestered in deepest Bavaria.
Good!
My friend’s house sequestered by debt collectors
Nia, nice effort. The idea is good but there is a slight problem with your grammar. Also remember to put a period at the end of your sentences.
My friend’s house is sequestered by debt collectors.
I’m feeling sequestered when I’m inside of an elevator.
Very good Geraldine!