isolate
verb (used with object)
to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
is isolating
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present progressiveof isolate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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A woman is isolating on the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific, after travelling on a hantavirus-hit cruise ship.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The person diagnosed with the Clade I variant is isolating at home and recovering, while people who had close contact with the person are being notified by public health officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024
What I saw up close is that spending the year in and out of hotels is isolating, but so is being a rapidly ascendant comic at her level of success.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Prison is isolating by design, and even things like obituaries are cruelly out of reach.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2023
This unexpected achievement has been pointed out—the Censor permitting—in various journals, and there has been a consequent recrudescence of activity to persuade Ireland that she is isolating herself from the world by turning towards Germany.
From The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin by Ernest Augustus Boyd
