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isolated
[ ahy-suh-ley-tid, is-uh- ]
adjective
- separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
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Other Words From
- iso·lated·ly adverb
- semi-iso·lated adjective
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Example Sentences
Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.
Which is impossible unless people talk publicly rather than letting each crime be its own isolated incident.
For many years, visitors were barred from the isolated towns.
He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.
All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly.
Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
It fell into the three more or less isolated subjects of arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.
It lay framed within his thoughts, isolated from the rest of life, isolated somehow even from the immediate present.
But one battalion was isolated on a spur, from which there seemed no way of escape save under a scorching flank fire.
Suppose that one single person owned all the food supply of a community isolated from the outside world.
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