3 sentences with 'quarantines'

Example sentences and phrases with the word quarantines and other words derived from it.

Brief definition: quarantines

Keeps people, animals, or things separate from others to prevent the spread of disease.

The only somewhat effective response to the Black Death was the application of quarantines.

Although quarantines reduced the spread of the plague in some cases, in general they only slowed it down.

More common than practical measures such as quarantines, however, was prayer and scapegoating to blame for the devastation.