sequester
verb (used with object)
to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
sequesters
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present tense formof sequester (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Each company that chooses to stay private sequesters wealth creation in the hands of a select few, rather than giving Main Street investors a chance to take a stake in the success of American enterprise.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Urchins devour kelp, which sequesters carbon and serves as shelter and food for a vast array of marine life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
He touts the plant as a a renewable resource that sequesters carbon, too.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
In a 2021 piece for Curbed about stewarding urban nature, Stephanie Foo drew motivation from a London plane that annually sequesters an estimated 10,500 tons of carbon dioxide.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
