6 sentences with “isolate”

All the steel doors, normally closed to isolate prisoners from the outside world, remained open.

"What we do is isolate and combine microbial strains, modifying their numbers to optimise the decomposition work they do.

After the British left Boston, they slowly adopted a strategy to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies and force the insurgents there into submission, believing that doing so would end the conflict.

After the bloodshed, Korea decided to isolate itself from the world. And so it remained for 250 years, until in the 19th century European nations seemed to remember that Korea existed and began to press for control of the country.

The Restriction Act, which was intended to isolate New York without angering the other colonies, had the opposite effect, showing the rest of the colonies how far from the British Constitution some members of Parliament were willing to go.

Surely, when reading this parable, many will have identified with the porcupines who prick themselves and others with those who prefer to isolate themselves and, as a result, freeze to death. No doubt all would agree that the best option is to reach an appropriate distance to participate, without submitting or marginalising oneself.