isolate

Example Sentences

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"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

Of course it made sense to isolate people from each other if you were going to treat them like this!

From Literature