Example Sentences

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For Bob Litwin, a 71-year-old resident of Boulder, Colo., the main goal is detaching from the outcome while enjoying the challenge of competing.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2019

The risk you take living that life is detaching too much emotionally so that you don’t see a good thing when it’s inches away from your face.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2019

The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Britain is detaching herself from them, understanding that she is an oceanic, colonizing, and world power, much more than a European state.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.

“The cocoon cleaners” are occupied picking them; that is, detaching from the hard shell the soft downy substance, which afterwards constitutes what is termed the rough silk. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb