Close off from others

Usage examples of isolate.

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

Nor is the argument of the defendants adequately met by citing isolated cases.

The goal is to avoid letting the adolescent isolate cyberspace from the rest of their life.

The only way to water the crops was to somehow extract enough moisture from the airsome was available, but difficult to isolate, especially with very small natural temperature changes in the Maracandan atmosphere.

Islanded, isolated and hemmed in for centuries by the Master of the Straits, the armies of the kingdom of Alba had never constituted a true threat to our borders.

DNA chips, runs DNA isolated from the borehole samples through polymerase chain reactions to make thousands of random copies, and passes aliquots across the chips.

Ironically, coca, the one that had first piqued his imagination, was the last to have its alkaloid isolated.

Of course, he was writing about coca, not cocaine, but the moment the alkaloid was isolated from the leaf they were assumed to be one and the same.

A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle.

The boy Calistro was sent to roust out the village victualers while the new arrivals pushed through a gabbling, laughing mob toward an isolated tub where Peopeo Moxmox Burke sat, his long graying hair stringy in the bathhouse vapors and his craggy face atwitch as he suppressed a delighted grin.

He was off on a fifty-mile drive to the isolated stretch of Long Island where the old Beld mansion stood.

Land area was scant, isolated volcanic tips thrust above the endlessly rolling seas, but the location of the planet saved long and tedious blinks from that sector of space back into Empire central.

Isolated crystals of bytownite bounded by well-defined faces are unknown.

Goldfinger and his caddie drifted away still wider to where the rough thinned out into isolated tufts.

Like Carain, Saura is isolated, and as such, faces a greater threat of attack than Dukkair.