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.
• The fact that they were not sequestered right from the start blows me away.
  — Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• The best in show judge is sequestered until the big reveal.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• Far fewer species would live there and much less carbon would be sequestered.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• They were not sequestered during the trial and were able to go home at the end of each day.
  — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2025
• But in this case, garbage that’s not been properly sequestered could start an outbreak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The pair sequester themselves in a shed while guests revel outside in the sunshine.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The cast’s glam team is sequestered from the actual set, however.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
• 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
• If azolla is added to fields as fertilizer, some of that carbon is sequestered in the ground.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
• And the pony hair aesthetic isn’t sequestered to Adidas.
  — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
• Marshland can sequester carbon and serves as a sponge that can better absorb sea-level rise.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
• In aggregate, those trees sequester more than two thousand tons of carbon dioxide.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• So why has it been sequestered inside a Newfoundland convent?
  — Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
• To date, those remaining on board are showing no symptoms and have been asked to sequester themselves in their cabins.
  — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
• Harris isn’t the only leader who believes success should be shared, not sequestered to one person.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
• Mosses also sequester carbon and help clean the air and tackle air pollution.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Feb. 2023
• Using it in cement makes even more sense for sequestering carbon, Shi says.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
• With their large size, density, and long lifespan, oaks can sequester more carbon dioxide than other species.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
• And all of our contestants are sequestered in a separate part of the lot, with security around them.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Doing so will allow forests and grasslands to be restored more quickly and sequester more carbon dioxide in the process.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• For example, farmers can plant cover crops that absorb carbon dioxide and sequester it in the soil.
  — Beth Carter, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• And when a blaze tears through, any carbon that trees managed to sequester in their tissues is turned right back into atmospheric gas.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 9 Aug. 2021
• If this strategy works, isoprene produced by microbes will displace oil and sequester large amounts of carbon.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026

sequester

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• Thing is, for years, Congress has missed the targets and waived the sequester.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Like their grass companions, broadleaf weeds work to control erosion and sequester carbon.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Meanwhile, sequester carbon is ruled out and replaced by build soil organic matter.
  — Oliver Milman, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
• 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 sequester order for students in dormitories ended at noon.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2021
• Urban forests absorb stormwater runoff, filter pollution from the air and sequester carbon.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2022
• This will not only reduce fossil fuels used in the vineyard, but the cover crop will allow vineyards to sequester carbon.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Drylands contain 27% of global forests, which help sequester carbon and slow global warming.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• From living there to recording there, how did sequester within your desert environs inspire Hardware?
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Grapes such as syrah, viognier and grenache are grown using various organic practices to improve soil health and sequester carbon.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2021
• Navy leaders on Tuesday abandoned the sequester plan after the Union-Tribune asked about it.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Biden’s plan would expand the program to include payments for crops that sequester carbon, according to his campaign website.
  — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
• The overuse and underfunding of the armed forces, culminating in the disastrous sequester.
  — Jim Talent, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
• Trees — and all plants — sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the main atmospheric greenhouse gases.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 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
• 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
• All these plants sequester carbon that would otherwise enter the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
• 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
• The projects not only sequester carbon but also boost biodiversity and help the land adapt to the changing climate by preventing floods and wildfires.
  — Ciara Nugent / Wallasea Island, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• These include the egregious sequester, which was enacted to resolve a 2011 debt-limit standoff.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• In the former case, the terrestrial gear can, over tens of thousands of years, mesh with the geological gear to more or less permanently sequester carbon.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• There are countless numbers of plankton that not only feed fish and other species, but also sequester carbon dioxide (CO2).
  — Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But Congress could neutralize that one, too, by passing legislation before the end of 2017 that stops the sequester.
  — Sahil Kapur, Bloomberg.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• During the 14-day sequester period directed by Wikoff, sailors are not allowed to leave their rooms, according to the documents.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• Grow Now is chock-a-block with tips on how to wild-ify land in the suburbs and the city, sequester carbon with no-dig gardening, and provide critical support to biodiversity.
  — Sunset Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
• Those sequester cuts kicked in in early March 2013, and as Bernstein’s blog details, the effects were immediate.
  — Patrick Caldwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021