Sentence examples for isolated towns from inspiring English sources

As a result, isolated towns and hamlets have seen supplies of food, gasoline and drinking water dwindle.

In her celebrated novels, "Housekeeping" (1981), "Gilead" (2004) and "Home" (2008), Marilynne Robinson gives us "isolated towns and single houses" where the afternoon sun draws "the damp out of the grass and... the smell of sour old sap out of the boards on the porch floor".

These jurisdictions — which include the entirety of most Southern states but also Alaska, Arizona and isolated towns and counties around the country — are required to obtain "preclearance" from the Justice Department or a panel of federal judges before making any changes to voting procedures.

The reversal in persistence patterns may be attributed to an outbreak of plague (Yersinia pestis) during the early 1990s, favoring isolated towns.

Government helicopters visit the isolated towns three times a day, bringing in troops and food supplies.

In El Salvador, flooding isolated towns for several days and caused crop damage.

A small, isolated town gets its first radio and everybody overreacts.

"It's where my heart is," he says of the isolated town.

A two-hour bus ride from Tacuarembó, this tiny, isolated town sits on the border of a vast, man-made lake.

The meter moratorium has survived, even through protracted litigation, with the support of residents who like this isolated town the way it is.

BEIJING — Officials have sealed off an isolated town of 10,000 people in rural west-central China after an outbreak of pneumonic plague killed three residents, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.