How to Use sequester in a Sentence

sequester

1 of 2 verb

• He was sequestered in his room.
• The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached.
• For instance, an undisturbed forest can sequester carbon for a long time in the trunks of trees and in the soil.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2021
• Some of it is sequestered for years, and other bits that make it as far as the seafloor are sequestered for centuries.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
• Suppose the offset vendor plants trees to sequester 1.16 tons of carbon over the life of these trees.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• And every acre of forest saved results in 375 tons of CO2 sequestered in trees.
  — Debbi Compton, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The saplings that survive have a huge advantage and grow taller and stronger, and sequester more carbon in their trunks.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• With Margot safely sequestered, the series goes back in time to 1933.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• Far fewer species would live there and much less carbon would be sequestered.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• In El Eco, sequestered tradition and an awakening to the wider world are both alive.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
• The barn was finished just in time for the owner’s children to sequester during the pandemic last year.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 22 July 2021
• In 1994, the O.J. Simpson trial jury was sequestered at the hotel.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
• But in this case, garbage that’s not been properly sequestered could start an outbreak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Beyond that, The CO2 is sequestered and the hydrogen can be stored to one day be put into the grid or be used for transportation.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2024
• Or that that tree will continue to grow and sequester carbon for years to come, rather than being cut down next year?
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• If azolla is added to fields as fertilizer, some of that carbon is sequestered in the ground.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
• The plant runs on geothermal energy and is able to sequester 4,000 tons of carbon per year.
  — Time, 28 Dec. 2021
• As part of the settlement entered Feb. 14, Facebook agreed to sequester and delete all the data at issue.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• Those votes are sequestered until the measure is approved by the courts, even if that happens after the election.
  — Sophia Tareen, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• The system also sequesters 85 percent of the greenhouse gases produced on the farm.
  — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Before the film’s debut, Mr. Wang and his producers sequestered themselves in a makeshift green room.
  — Nicole Sperling Joel Barhamand, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Philips explains that the journalists were sequestered in the legendary Metropol Hotel.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• Chau’s driving intent to share the Christian Gospel with this remote tribe, sequestered from the rest of the world for thousands of years, was met with fatal arrows.
  — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The nets drag along the bottom of the ocean, damaging the delicate ecosystem of the ocean floor, and releasing the carbon that’s sequestered in the sediment.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Under the scheme, investors will receive $50 for every metric ton of CO2 sequestered and stored.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Much is at stake, said Salk plant biologist Joanne Chory,who is working on ways to get plants to sequester greater amounts of carbon.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• The company plans to sell credits based on carbon that’s sequestered this way, but the funds aren’t central to its business model.
  — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Bard is just its own chatbot system, sequestered away in its own little sandbox at bard.google.com.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• And all of our contestants are sequestered in a separate part of the lot, with security around them.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• The researchers looked at the extent to which a policy of sequestering unvaccinated kids would help to reduce the outbreaks’ size.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2024

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sequester

2 of 2 noun

• Thing is, for years, Congress has missed the targets and waived the sequester.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• While the on-board sequester is over, the pressure to get back on schedule is still on.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The more crops you plant, burn, and sequester, the more carbon dioxide your remove from the air.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• Plants sequester carbon from the air and share some of that carbon with fungi.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• On farms, soil can hold or sequester carbon if it is left undisturbed and covered by a crop.
  — Michael Phillis, ajc, 3 Aug. 2022
• These practices have been shown to boost soil health, prevent erosion and sequester carbon in the soil.
  — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
• In the past, Congress has boosted spending beyond limits of the sequester, and will be asked by Trump to do so again.
  — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
• The cuts, known as sequester, were only supposed to happen if lawmakers weren’t able to agree on what in the budget to cut.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• The sequester pared gross domestic product by 1.2% and cost as many as 1.6 million jobs over its first two years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• But the supercommittee couldn’t reach an agreement, setting up across-the-board cuts known as the sequester in 2013.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Navy leaders on Tuesday abandoned the sequester plan after the Union-Tribune asked about it.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• In the five years the sequester has been in effect, the Department has lost $484 billion dollars compared to Gates’s budget plan.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• Tidal marshes such as those found along the lagoons on San Diego County’s coast sequester carbon in deep layers of soil.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
• But Congress decided to bust through the sequester caps and add $128 billion to domestic programs for the next two years.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• And scientists have found that whale poop is a feast for phytoplankton near the ocean surface, which suck multiple forests’-worth of CO2 from the air and sequester it in the deep.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2020
• Ecobricks sequester plastic from the global waste stream.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2022
• Those curbs, known as the sequester, are set to kick in early next year, unless Congress passes a new law raising spending.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
• The impasse was ended by the infamous sequester, which placed harsh spending cuts on the government for 10 years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Lackner said to balance out the planet's carbon budget, the trees would need to move beyond the market and sequester CO2.
  — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• Nelson asked Cahill to delay the trial, move it to a new location and sequester all jurors for the duration.
  — USA Today, 12 Apr. 2021
• That included the sequester, a sheaf of budget cuts enacted to settle a debt ceiling fight in 2011.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Hundreds of plants and animals call the region home, and the forest helps sequester carbon and store water for the state’s residents.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• That’s good for the climate (trees sequester carbon), biodiversity and the soils.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• The loss of so many of the many-limbed predators has allowed sea urchins to devour kelp forests that shelter other marine species and sequester carbon out of the atmosphere.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The trees themselves need seven to ten years to become substantial enough to slow storm surges, shrink waves, and sequester enough carbon in their roots to make a difference.
  — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
• The rotting trees in dying forests release greenhouse gases, whereas healthy forests sequester carbon in trees and in soils.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• In fact, researchers hope to one day sequester massive quantities of carbon by sinking kelp into the deep ocean.
  — Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2022
• Peat bogs, for example, sequester large amounts of the carbon dioxide and methane that are driving climate change.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2022
• The overuse and underfunding of the armed forces, culminating in the disastrous sequester.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
• Dating shows like Love Island and The Bachelor sequester people on islands and in mansions to force romance.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024