Example : Isolated instances of rebellion.
A few stray crumbs.

Synonyms : stray

Example : 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.

Synonyms : detached, separated, set-apart

Example : Little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara.

Synonyms : disjunct

Example : An isolated pawn.
Several stranded fish in a tide pool.
Travelers marooned by the blizzard.

Synonyms : marooned, stranded

Example : A quarantined animal.
Isolated patients.

Synonyms : quarantined

Example : 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.

Synonyms : apart, obscure