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Example sentences for "sequester"

Lexicographically close words:
sequent; sequentes; sequentia; sequential; sequere; sequestered; sequestering; sequestrate; sequestrated; sequestration
  1. Let him sequester himself, from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth.

  2. Milton is justly presumed to be as familiar to the ear as nature to the eye; and to steal from him as impossible as to appropriate, or sequester to a private use, some "bright particular star.

  3. Indeed it long been the practice to sequester their lands, punish them for going to mass, fine them for not attending the established church, banish their priests, and imprison those who aided priests.

  4. So a committee was established in 1643 to investigate and sequester their lands and goods, excepting one- fifth of the estate for the wife and children.

  5. They were under five Overseers, who had power to improve and lease the lands of the Indians and their tenements, but no power to sell, sequester or dedicate any part of them.

  6. Now what power had these men in 1783, to sequester four hundred acres of the common land of the Indians, for any purpose?

  7. The Romans therefore hauing obteined the possession of this Iland, diuided the same at the last into fiue prouinces, as Vibius Sequester [Sidenote: Britannia prima.

  8. Vibius Sequester also saith that Calabria was sometime called Britannia, Ob immensam affluentiam totius delitiƦ atque vbertatis, that was to be found heerein.

  9. It is not enough for a man to sequester himself from people; he must seclude himself from himself.

  10. My rule therein I endeavour to make absolute, that I may sequester that only corner from all, whether wife, children, or acquaintances.

  11. But the other day we were to prohibit all commercial intercourse, to sequester debts, and to prepare for war.

  12. First, as it respects the right of one nation to sequester the property of the individuals of another in any possible case.

  13. If any proven guilt results you shall sequester the property of offenders, in order to assure the judgment.

  14. When the said investigation shall prove guilt, we have ordered the said president by an act, to sequester property, and to be rigorous in the sentence of this execution, according as we decreed it, and in the form ordered.

  15. Let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he traveleth.

  16. I endeavour to make my rule therein absolute, and to sequester that only corner from the community of wife, of children, and of acquaintance.

  17. To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.

  18. A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation.

  19. Vibius Sequester also saith that Calabria was sometime called Britannia, Ob immensam affluentiam totius delitiae atque vbertatis, that was to be found heerein.

  20. To confiscate and sequester estates, and banish persons of certain descriptions.

  21. He finally remarked, that he had made up his mind to sequester a portion of his property as the foundation for a professorship of eloquence; which he knew would also be agreeable to Mrs. Evans.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sequester" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.