Definition: 1. Far away from any others. 2. Without much contact with other people or other countries. 3. Single; happening once. 4. Not close together in time. 5. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others. 6. Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements.
Use 'isolated' in a sentence:
1. Some very low-level responses may rely on isolated words or short utterances to communicate ideas.
2. It may make us feel isolated and incompetent.
3. Don't view things as static and isolated.
4. They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession.
5. The enemy was holed up in a few isolated strongholds.
6. The minister stopped public transportation from being cut in ways that leave people isolated.
7. During the Pleistocene epoch, several species of elephants isolated on islands underwent rapid dwarfing.
8. The centres varied from relatively isolated rural hospitals to teaching hospitals in capital cities.
9. They feel irritable and depressed, often isolated and lonely.
10. Nobody is willing to give up their beliefs at the risk of getting isolated.
11. In Japan young women may be rebelling against their mothers' isolated lives of child rearing.
12. The original bandits lived in isolated villages and carried out raids on upright citizens.
13. But we are finding out that they aren't as isolated as they seem.
14. This cultivates a sense of goodwill and helps the university avoid becoming isolated from the larger community.
15. Her willingness to be subservient to her children isolated her.
16. Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades—by 2005 some 20% of human genes were patented.
17. The minister is also pushing to stop public transportation from being cut in ways that leave people isolated.
18. The metaphysical world outlook sees things as isolated, static and one-sided.
19. His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him.
20. Consort has a population of 714 and is about as rural and isolated as you can get.
21. There are still a few isolated pockets of resistance to the new regime.
22. Men can feel isolated at work.
23. It's an isolated spot all right.
24. I had often been very fearful, very angry, and very isolated.
25. But of course no one lives totally alone, isolated from the society around them.
26. She developed a taste for journeys to isolated hazardous regions in North America.
27. Many of the refugee villages are in isolated areas.
28. Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment.
29. I felt very isolated in my new job.
30. The house is isolated and a prime target for burglars.
31. The decision left the country isolated from its allies.
32. Some patients may become very isolated and depressed.
33. Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served.
34. The country remained diplomatically isolated.
35. Elderly people easily become socially isolated.
36. Patients with the disease should be isolated.
37. In isolated human cells, this antibody proved to be extraordinarily effective at thwarting the rhinovirus.
38. Breen did acknowledge that a few isolated boycotts may have taken place in other countries.
39. His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
40. The police said the attack was an isolated incident.
41. They said the allegations related to an isolated case of cheating.
42. A united effort is always more effective than an isolated complaint.
