isolate

Example Sentences

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The assemblage consists of a nearly complete adult lower jaw, part of a second adult mandible, a child's mandible, several vertebrae, and isolated teeth.

From Science Daily

"When I started struggling mentally, all of that just went out of the window. It was hard for my mother to get me to go to school. I was really isolated."

From BBC

“In an atomized society,” Ms. Liu observes, “where it’s easy to simply withdraw and isolate oneself, the crucial challenge was to do just the opposite: to reach out, reconnect, and rebuild community.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Layoffs are likely occurring in a few isolated cases, but evidence of broad-based job losses is scarce.”

From Barron's

Several spacecraft and telescopes -- including Mir -- have met a similar fate, splashing down at an isolated spot in the ocean called Point Nemo.

From Barron's