INSULATE in a Sentence

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For INSULATE, below is one of 12 sentences:
The platinoid wire is insulated and the covering of silk that insulates it is wound on the ebonite bobbins just where my finger is.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSULATE
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insulate
 v.  make an island of; place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; isolate; separate
Classic Sentence:
1  The platinoid wire is insulated and the covering of silk that insulates it is wound on the ebonite bobbins just where my finger is.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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Example Sentence:
1  They have found a way to insulate themselves against the cost of inflation.
2  It would be wrong to assume that rich countries will always be able to insulate themselves with drugs against the ravages of new diseases.
3  You can insulate a house against heat loss by having the windows double-glazed.
4  It is important to insulate the furnace from any neighboring woodwork with brick and asbestos.
5  They wonder if their community is no longer insulated from big city problems.
6  In order to make it safe, the element is electrically insulated.
7  The royal family is insulated from many of the difficulties faced by ordinary people.
8  The laboratory was well insulated against all outside noise.
9  That basic research and advanced technology budgets are not insulated from the big NASA projects.
10  Kiln is thermally insulated chamber, or oven, in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.
11  The insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel.