self-isolate
Americanverb (used without object)
Other Word Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Two people who returned to the UK from the ship have been advised to self-isolate, the UK Health Security Agency said, adding they were asymptomatic and insisting the risk to the public was "very low".
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
To be safe, he and his cameraman decided to self-isolate, he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
He said the chancellor was particularly worried about creating "perverse intensives" which might have increased the risks of fraud, or meant some workers could be paid more to self-isolate than in wages.
From BBC • May 28, 2025
If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said.
From BBC • May 28, 2025
Around that time the government shifted to a mitigation strategy - advising hand-washing and asking people to work from home if possible and self-isolate if they had a fever or cough.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2023
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
