How to Use isolation in a Sentence

isolation

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  • Nothing has improved voice call performance and AI voice isolation on both sets of buds, as well.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • People know that social media is driving their kids into cultures of envy and lives of isolation.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But at least one country, by comparison, exists in total temporal isolation.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Unfortunately, the animal rights movement may be partly to blame for its relative isolation.
    — Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Small equals airborne equals hospital isolation rooms, respirator masks, and other costly control measures.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Parks’s library isolation gave her the gift of self-reflection and creation — going the way your blood beats, to riff on James Baldwin’s advice about living truthfully.
    — Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • For some, that sense of isolation would not lift in the days ahead.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The tour will provide a stipend to pay for the costs of his self-isolation.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020
  • He's locked up in isolation, and his life is on the line.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 5 June 2021
  • As the weeks and then months of isolation piled up, the whales beckoned.
    — Jill Bialosky, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The episode transports you right back to the paranoia of the first weeks of isolation.
    — Iana Murray, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
  • For some, the sense of social of isolation was too much to bear.
    — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • The question of Biden’s age does not come in isolation, of course.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • One of the hardest parts of being a stay-at-home dad has been the isolation.
    — Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 20 June 2021
  • Yes, your daughter has been alone for a long time, and the isolation takes a toll on all of us.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 16 May 2020
  • This can lead to feelings of isolation in work and in life.
    — Zee Clarke, Essence, 13 June 2022
  • Still, the feeling of isolation slipped over me with the water line.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Make the trip in complete isolation in a small craft, sure.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2019
  • The reason for the resurgence: this isolation move can help add size and strength to your quads.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But Jepsen wasn’t done with the concept of growth through isolation.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
  • To end the pandemic and nine months of isolation and tragedy.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The home’s isolation wing will also be open for this tour.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2022
  • Even in his isolation, the ex-king has shown a knack for seeking out the wrong people.
    — Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Clever enough, but the fact is, many people do put on pounds in isolation.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
  • My plan was to spend ten days in silence and isolation.
    — Elizabeth Gilbert, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2016
  • Her husband and son died years ago, and there had been a time when the isolation had felt bearable.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • The last thing women need right now is even more isolation.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • That said, no single food in isolation can make or break your state of health.
    — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 17 Dec. 2018
  • How many can switch onto smalls with ease and hold up in isolation?
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2021
  • To speed things up, the Rice team decided to give microwaves a try, knowing that the choline chloride that leads to the isolation of the lithium is very good at absorbing microwave radiation.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 30 July 2024

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