"isolated instances of rebellion"
"a few stray crumbs"

"she felt detached from the group"
"could not remain the isolated figure he had been"
"thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"
"had a set-apart feeling"

"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"

"an isolated pawn"
"several stranded fish in a tide pool"
"travelers marooned by the blizzard"

"a quarantined animal"
"isolated patients"

"existed over the centuries as a world apart"
"preserved because they inhabited a place apart"
"tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"
"an obscure village"