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Example sentences for "isolated"

Lexicographically close words:
isobath; isochronism; isochronous; isogonic; isolate; isolates; isolating; isolation; isolationism; isomer
  1. They seemed very isolated people; those two women lived without any acquaintances, as far as I know, and apared proudly indifferent to the outside world.

  2. We have, however, isolated groups, individuals in all classes, by no means delighting in his representation of them.

  3. The natural revelry of the blood in speed suffers a violent shock, not to speak of our notion of being left behind, quite isolated and unsound.

  4. But this state of blessedness cannot be reached by mere self-discipline; the prayers, the meditations, the good works of the isolated and uninstructed individual, can only serve to condone a state of irremediable ignorance.

  5. If you take any isolated phrase you choose, without reference to the rest of the Book, there is no nonsense you cannot make out of the Bible.

  6. The isolated poultryman, unless he find a market at his very door, will do better to permit at least one middleman to slip in between himself and the consumer.

  7. A single isolated farmer in a community of farms or market gardeners, could hire a team by the day as he needed it.

  8. The news of his death was the first thing to bring the War actually home to our isolated corner of the world.

  9. In a small isolated community like ours, one excitement is made to do duty for a long while.

  10. This old-fashioned pious kindliness is hardly now the mode, and isolated instances can rarely be met with even in remote country districts.

  11. Their isolated position in the extreme west, and their want of means of communication, may partly account for this.

  12. Isolated Roman Catholic Unionists like myself need to be in a very strong and independent position before they dare to express their views.

  13. These isolated examples are cited to bring discredit on Protestant landlords in general.

  14. Where would be your isolated handfuls of soldiery and police, with roads torn up, bridges destroyed, and an entire population rising against them?

  15. Not isolated or sporadic cases, but arising from the average level of the Irish character.

  16. For sudden leaps to fortune are given to but few, and are seldom lasting, and the results of sudden inflations are more disastrous even to a community than to isolated individuals, as may be abundantly proved by the early history of Virginia.

  17. We were to join that small, isolated batch of the British Army which had taken over the coastal sector from the French with such high hopes in the middle of the year.

  18. It was known that the enemy held his front line in a series of isolated posts, each armed with light machine guns.

  19. However, he soon began to register on the new trench, and unfortunately an isolated tree (Cauliflower Tree) helped him in this work.

  20. This will account, therefore, for the sudden arrival of an enemy patrol outside one of our isolated posts one night.

  21. Meanwhile Gresty and the company of the 6th on the Yellow Line had been ordered to fall back 300 yards to a less isolated position, and a sound front and flank was thus established.

  22. The enemy therefore looked calmly down upon us from his elaborate Hindenburg system of trenches beyond Vendhuile whilst we expanded our isolated outposts into organised continuous lines.

  23. Quarry to the Diamond (a forward isolated redoubt) for they struck a wrong direction and walked into a hail of enemy bullets.

  24. There is no liberty, except in the simple state of nature, where man is isolated from man, and becomes a solitary savage.

  25. All hunters agree that a large percentage of all buffaloes were badly wounded, and walked from the field of slaughter to some isolated ravine, or brush thicket, and died a lingering death.

  26. During the rest of the time that I was on the range, the hunters could only see a few isolated bands of buffaloes.

  27. Isolated as we were, we kept track of the days of the week and the month of the year.

  28. Even as isolated individuals they are able to command a better money wage than more efficient workers, which proves how great is the need for their services.

  29. If they elected to demand pianos and private baths they could get them; that is, if instead of remaining isolated individuals they could form themselves into an industrial class, like plumbers, or bricklayers, or carpenters.

  30. Then as for mediation, whether isolated or in common, he saw no hope in it.

  31. I never have thus understood, or thought I understood, above one or two, though here and there I may get hold of an isolated idea about others.

  32. I hoped to drop in with an isolated action or a few outpost duels, for up to the present things were going exceedingly slow from my point of view.

  33. What caused it I know not; everything seemed unnaturally quiet; with the exception of an isolated sniper, the greatest war in history might have been thousands of miles away.

  34. Fortunately, the Germans seeing no further sign of life, evidently thought it was a case of an isolated soldier, and so ceased their fire.

  35. It seems strange, indeed, that our statesmen cannot learn that we must hereafter abandon our isolated condition.

  36. The insular and isolated conditions have been preserved during a period sufficiently extended for the development of a peculiar Batrachian fauna.

  37. Its latitude, its isolated position, and the close agreement of Wilkes' description with that of Gallego, leave no room to doubt that Wake's Island and the Isle of San Francisco are one and the same .

  38. The lightest hues, such as would appear to characterise natives in isolated localities, as in Santa Catalina, and on the north coast of Guadalcanar opposite the Rua Sura Islets, would be best exemplified by colour-type 28.

  39. The older lads have to submit themselves to this operation before they obtain the rights of manhood; and I was informed that during its progress they are kept isolated in a house and fed on the blood of a certain fish (?

  40. Here and there on the crest of some distant hill a cluster of cocoa-nut palms marked the home of a bush-tribe effectually isolated by deep intervening valleys from the neighbouring tribes.

  41. It is curious that, with the partial exception of Germany, and a few isolated instances in other countries, mezzotint should have been practically confined to England; the very name is not recognised elsewhere.

  42. Feeling himself isolated among the princes of his country, rebuffed by the Medici, and coldly treated by the King of Naples, he turned in his anxiety to France, and advised the young king, Charles VIII.

  43. Hedges, haystacks, isolated farms--all were English in their details.

  44. It remains as yet, however, an isolated fact in the history of Italian popular poetry.

  45. But Nature, it seemed, had shrunk from the vain effort of the isolated mother.

  46. The original entry was through a panel at the back of a "box bed" in the wainscot of a small, isolated bedroom at the top of the house.

  47. In this beautiful old fortified and moated mansion the secret stairs may yet be seen that led up to the little isolated chamber, with massive casemated walls for the exclusion of sound.

  48. This, therefore, is our excuse for giving a brief summary of the Prince's wanderings, if only to add to our other hiding-places a record of the names of the isolated spots which have become historical landmarks.

  49. Secret nocturnal interviews took place between Lord Montague and his wife in "My Lady's Walk," an isolated spot in Cowdray Park.

  50. Isolated crimes, crimes committed by gangs of criminals, riots, shops and churches pillaged wholesale.

  51. After two hours' progress, during which they groped their way, guided from time to time by the vague shimmering of the river, they reached a sort of isolated chaos into which Simon wearily cast the light of his electric torch.

  52. Little time was lost in starting the herds, mine in the lead, while the wagons got away well in advance, accompanied by Forrest's remuda and the isolated contingent of cattle.

  53. Now it stands us in hand to see that those herds are isolated until after the 15th day of September.

  54. Possibly this was fortunate, for before I had ridden one third the distance to the quarantine camp, I met a cavalcade of nearly a dozen men from the isolated herds.

  55. Thus even the compact and isolated Moki establishment is not quite homogeneous, ethnically speaking.

  56. As to the "Mountains of Magdalen" of Pike's text: We observe that he maps two isolated elevations on his right, W.

  57. But these settled down in Arizona and built pueblos, isolated from their kindred and surrounded by Athapascan (Navajo and Apache) tribes.

  58. Chemehuevi, a Shoshonean tribe then as now living in Arizona below the canyon, and thus isolated from their parent stock among Apaches of Athapascan lineage.

  59. But these were often mere passing isolated utterances.

  60. Pope's Grotto was not an isolated curiosity.

  61. Little Gidding was practically a home school, but it stands as an isolated attempt.

  62. The isolated learned lady under the charge of some wise husband or father could presumably be guided in right paths or suppressed.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "isolated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alien; alienated; alone; aloof; anonymous; apart; back; calm; cloistered; closet; cool; deserted; desolate; detached; disarticulated; disconnected; discrete; disengaged; disjointed; disjunct; dislocated; dispersed; distant; disunited; divided; divorced; dwindling; estranged; exotic; extraneous; foreign; friendless; halcyon; homeless; hushed; impassive; incognito; incommensurable; incomparable; independent; inmost; innermost; insular; interior; intimate; inward; island; isolate; isolated; lone; lonely; lonesome; moldering; other; outlandish; pacific; parochial; particular; peaceable; peaceful; personal; placid; private; privy; quarantined; quiescent; quiet; remote; removed; reposeful; reposing; restful; retired; scattered; secluded; segregate; segregated; separate; separated; sequestered; sheltered; single; singular; smooth; solitary; solo; still; stolid; strange; stray; subsiding; tranquil; unaccompanied; unaffiliated; unaided; unallied; unassisted; unassociated; unattended; unconnected; undisturbed; unescorted; unfrequented; unmoved; unperturbed; unrelated; unruffled; unsupported; untroubled; waning; withdrawn