ISOLATION in a Sentence

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111 example sentences for ISOLATION, such as:

1. Do not isolate yourself from others.
2. The town was isolated by the floods.
3. Not many people visit this isolated spot.
4. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution.
5. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu.

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 Meanings and Examples of ISOLATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
isolation
 n.  separation; detachment; quality or condition of being isolated
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  And he lay there in his own isolation, but somehow proud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  But a pallor of isolation came over him, she was not really there for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  He turned slowly, ponderingly, accepting again the isolation.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
8  The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
9  I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10  And I accept this isolation of hatred, without hating any one myself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
11  Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
12  That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
13  And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
14  From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
15  lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
17  The town was isolated by the floods.
18  It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
19  Not many people visit this isolated spot.
20  A united effort is always more effective than an isolated complaint.
21  They have isolated the bacterium in its pure form.
22  Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges.
23  The radical group in the ruling party is becoming increasingly isolated.
24  Several villages have been isolated by the heavy snowfall.
25  Without help, many elderly people would be left isolated.
26  At the extreme, some nuclear waste is so radioactive it has to be kept isolated for thousands of years.
27  "Do you mean to say," he asked, "that you are completely isolated from every connection?"
28  On their return, a long-term strategy to help these isolated communities get back to self-sufficiency will be considered.
29  Do not isolate yourself from others.
30  Your mission is to isolate the enemy by destroying all the bridges across the river.