INSULAR in a Sentence

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For INSULAR, below is one of 4 sentences:
Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSULAR
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insular
 a.  of isolated people, especially having a narrow viewpoint
Classic Sentence:
1  Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
Example Sentence:
1  It was a shock for Kendra to go from her small high school, with her insular group of friends, to a huge college with students from all over the country.
2  A continental climate is different from an insular one.
3  The insularity of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anything foreign.