How to Use detach in a Sentence

detach

verb

• Detach the upper part of the form and return it with your payment.
• During the accident the trailer was detached from the car.
• It can be difficult to detach yourself from the chaos of the situation.
• The brush detaches from the vacuum cleaner for easy cleaning.
• She has been trying to detach herself from an abusive relationship.
• If ever there was a time to detach from your watch, winter is it.
  — Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2020
• Blades can detach while in use, posing an injury hazard.
  — NBC News, 28 Dec. 2020
• Once in the air, if something goes wrong, the capsule can detach from the rockets and parachute into the sea.
  — Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2020
• To resume a humble life free of expectations and detached from his ties to a criminal?
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2024
• The driver side mirror glass can detach from the backing plate and no longer provide a reflective surface.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• Some patients report threads that poke through the skin, cause infection, or detach internally.
  — Julie Ricevuto, Allure, 5 Nov. 2020
• The roof-rail air bag (RRAB) inflator end cap may detach from the inflator.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• Without a soul to hold a person together, a body part—especially a nose—may entirely detach itself.
  — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• After finishing a years-long assignment with one zombie orbiter, the vehicles can detach and rescue new targets.
  — Rob Verger and Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• That means that, like hydrogen for example, RNA bonds and will not detach from other molecules.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2020
• The boy’s head was scalped and a piece of his skull was detached.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
• The steel blades and guards detach as well for easy cleaning.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
• The cube's top can be detached and flipped for easy storage.
  — Allen Foster, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Once the shell opens slightly, use the knife to work your way around the slit to detach the top from the bottom shell.
  — Odette Williams, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
• Part of the building’s back section collapsed and detached from the rest of the structure, the fire chief said.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 29 May 2023
• In this issue, part of the tire that bridges between the tread and the bead detaches from the rest of the tire structure.
  — Kody Boye, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2024
• Isaacman and Gillis will not detach from the spacecraft and float freely in space.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
• Soon, her home began to tilt under the force of the floodwater, and a chunk of the house detached.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
• To remove the old handle, detach the chain from the far end of the rod attached to the current handle.
  — Kyle Schurman, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
• After liftoff, the rocket will tear past the speed of sound, and near the top of its flight path, will detach from the capsule.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• The legs on the Allure Swivel Dining chair may detach from the chair body.
  — Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2021
• Repeat on the other side of the spine, fully detaching the spine from the bird.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2023
• Simply detach the chaise and pull out the inner bed frame.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
• Thieves would detach entire tail bags and run off with them.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The tie rod clamps may be loose, which could result in loose tie rod ends that could break or detach.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024