Example Sentences

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Characteristically unnerving is “Losing Control,” in which the subject’s fingertips have detached and appear to be either falling off or floating away.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

And in ghost hunting communities, these are thought to be not dead people, but pieces of rage that have somehow gotten so powerful, they have detached from someone's body.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2019

I watched peers go through surgeries to have detached hamstrings reconnected.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2018

"Home prices have detached from construction costs," Romem wrote in a recent blog post.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2018

“Papa Papa Papa Papa,” Marie-Laure is saying, but her body seems to have detached itself from her voice, and her words make a faraway, desolate cadence.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr