How to Use sequestration in a Sentence

sequestration

noun

• During their sequestration, jurors were not allowed to speak to reporters.
• And there’s no carbon price anywhere in the world big enough to make sequestration pay off.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 14 June 2018
• The sequestration part of CCS is still looming out there.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 1 June 2018
• Under sequestration, the CDC, which managed the stockpile at the time, faced a 5% budget cut.
  — Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2020
• Swiss authorities seized the cars and ordered the sequestration of a yacht in 2016.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The goal is to conserve more wild land to reduce the effects of climate change (through carbon sequestration) and slow species loss.
  — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2021
• Cotton’s amendment sought to end the sequestration threat for both kinds of spending.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• For all the heartache caused by the loss of our troops during these wars, no enemy in the field has done more to harm the readiness of our military than sequestration.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• Both parties want to avoid the return of across-the-board spending limits, known as sequestration, that were established in 2011 and are set to kick back in.
  — Laura Meckler, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
• The air show was sidelined by the federal sequestration in 2013.
  — Post-Tribune, 12 May 2017
• And no amount raised by fundraisers for carbon sequestration can fix this.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The court found her guilty of sequestration and theft of the plumber's telephone, as well as complicity in violence.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2019
• The court also found the bodyguard, Rani Saida, guilty on charges of violence, sequestration and theft.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• In addition, the study says the rate of carbon sequestration will slow in the future as soil carbon content hits a ceiling.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
• Tillerson's shortcomings can also be traced to his years of sequestration in a C-suite.
  — chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The burden of sequestration for this Philly-spirited team of 18 was made lighter by the camaraderie of the group and the support and graciousness of the sheriffs and other court staff.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• It is not meant to replace organic, the group said, but to take it to the next level and require farmers to focus on soil health and carbon sequestration.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2020
• Congress made across-the-board spending cuts known as budget sequestration that took effect in 2013.
  — Emmarie Huetteman, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• Those groups also work to find new ways and try out new equipment for carbon sequestration, which keeps carbon in the soil and mitigates the amount in the atmosphere.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
• Carbon sequestration payments could backfire if used in the wrong places.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
• And some carbon compounds can bind with the minerals in clay, a form of carbon sequestration that can last hundreds or even thousands of years.
  — Jennifer Fergesen, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• The gas is then compressed into a liquid form and pumped underground for storage, a process know as sequestration.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2023
• Those caps became more restrictive in 2013 through a process known as sequestration.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2017
• Researchers will try to boost the unique landscape’s powers of carbon sequestration by replanting and re-wetting, per the Guardian.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
• A lot of people don’t realize half the cuts under sequestration have come from defense.
  — WSJ, 6 Mar. 2017
• It’s done mostly through carbon sequestration, in which plants store greenhouse gases in their biomass.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
• Sobriety is a small price to pay for carbon sequestration.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2020
• The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• Still, no one has done carbon capture and sequestration successfully at scale yet.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
• Indeed, carbon capture and sequestration is analogous to scrubbers – devices that the EPA has required for decades to remove pollutants such as fine particulates, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plant smokestacks.
  — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024