How to Use detachment in a Sentence

detachment

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  • A detachment of soldiers was called to assist the police.
  • I wish the article had approached the issue with a bit more detachment.
  • The form is perforated to make detachment of the bottom section easier.
  • The level of detachment seems to be rising with the demand.
    — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
  • Even the Mahler looks on this unbearable pain with a kind of detachment.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • Instead, keep a healthy amount of detachment from the outcome.
    — Time, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Lessons in healthy detachment from other stuff rarely go to waste.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • How does that sort of detachment make for better results for you?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • The best stress relief gifts serve as methods for relaxation and detachment from the world around you.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In rare cases, the cysts may float in the eye and cause blurry or disturbed vision, eye swelling, or detachment of the retina.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The detachment keeps Davila connected to the military and to a certain frame of mind.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • That level of detachment from reality should set the high end of the scale for wrongness.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The scenery is similar in both kinds of paintings, but where the oils have an Olympian detachment, the tempera ones pull the eye across the vastness and into curves of land and curls of clouds.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • No, the detachment of soldiers is not going there to help, to the extent this is permitted by law, solve the crisis at the border.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 May 2023
  • Wilson puts most of his aw-shucks charm to the side to play this spacey wannabe, portraying Eli instead with a pitiable whine or some far-out detachment.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • This week, a detachment of six Russian landing ships arrived at the Sevastopol port in Crimea.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2022
  • That way, the region’s remaining customers aren’t forced to pay higher bills as a result of the detachment.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
  • He’s put in 9,910 hours with the detachment over those decades, often showing up for burials several times a week.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Democrats have watched the other side of the aisle with amused detachment and, in at least one case tweeted out by a House member, literal popcorn.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Calamity struck when Hall suffered a freak biceps detachment injury in late July 2021, putting the fight on hold.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Adding to her feelings of detachment, her baby brother had open-heart surgery the following year.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • The regiment was part of a scratch Union detachment that was thrown together along the river to halt or slow the rebels, who were only about 40 miles from the capital.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2021
  • This perception of self can lead to extreme apathy, self-neglect and detachment from the world around them.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • In the book, the reader sees how McCauley’s backstory of foster homes and a loved one bleeding to death in his arms is what leads him to a life of emotional detachment.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Freudian notions of grieving have taught us that mourning is a process leading to detachment — a sort of closure.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • But pundits don’t think the biggest worry would be a pivot towards Trump, but rather a shift towards detachment and not showing up to the polls.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • By the end of his four seasons at Florida, Mullen’s detachment was again palpable.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The detachment of Russian warships moving into the Black Sea, six large landing vessels, will take part in an exercise, the navy said.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In previous specials, detachment was a frequent theme of his.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • There is this emotional detachment from Marilyn Monroe that makes this such a dark and graphic film.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022

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