How to Use detachment in a Sentence

detachment

noun
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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.
  • Going home at the end of the day is a great way to start, but detachment is also cognitive.
    — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Marx describes the song as being about detachment, but in a positive sense of the word.
    — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The Victorians had not yet been bathed in this acid of ironic detachment.
    — Yuval Levin, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The stark neo-modernist detachment of Baise-moi has given way to sweeping naturalist majesty.
    — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Savannah had to have retinal detachment surgery following an injury to her right eye in late November.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The costs associated with detachment are still unknown.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • At the same time, the detachment of Old Guard at Buckingham Palace forms and the two meet up.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2021
  • This will avoid breakage and paint detachment of the base.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 7 June 2021
  • The level of detachment seems to be rising with the demand.
    — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
  • The concept of true detachment from work feels foreign to a lot of us these days.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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 first has been with the country, in varying degrees, since its founding: a sense of detachment.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 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
  • But some critics were put off by its pretense and air of detachment.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • 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 long-term challenge for the West, then, is to manage the risks that come from both dependence and detachment—and figure out how to live with them.
    — Ali Wyne, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2023
  • But as with all virtues, the effort to achieve Olympian detachment becomes its own vice when taken too far.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Many conditions can lead to a retina detachment, where the retina separates from the wall of the eye.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The lull of waves and chirps of insects in the fragrant, tropical woods along the coast create a sense of dreamy detachment, even under the scorching sun.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This scene stands out for the anguish that Phillips puts into it, and that stands out in another regard, too—its seeming detachment from the action that precedes it and follows it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That suspicion and detachment are what Rutsch, a former computer systems administrator turned empathy educator, aims to dissolve through empathy cafes and other similar events.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

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