Example Sentences

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First, two very different letters about depression: My husband has disengaged from our marriage; and a friend I’m not close with anymore is using me as his only emotional outlet.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2017

"He has disengaged himself from his coach-window, and if he is a gentleman he will know what he has to do."

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

But Christianity, merely by her settlements and fixing of truths, has disengaged and unfixed a world of other truths, for sustaining or for tempting an endless activity of the intellect.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

"It may be so in an early matrimony, before the lady's confidence in the honour and discretion of the man she has chosen has disengaged her from her bridal reserves."

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

She has disengaged herself from her sister, and stands staring round, as if half-bewildered.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda