How to Use detachment in a Sentence

detachment

noun

• 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.
• 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
• The new detachment brings the total troop levels up to 4,000 at the border.
  — Brad Dress, The Hill, 24 Jan. 2025
• 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
• In the end, a cavalry detachment from Fort Myer helped to clear the street.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Lessons in healthy detachment from other stuff rarely go to waste.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• Loose bolts attaching the wheel to the column can lead to complete detachment of the wheel, Ford said.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2018
• One of them, a fair- haired youth, inspected his weapon with the calm detachment of a marksman.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
• Along with his son and a detachment of men, Antoine traipsed around the forested countryside in search of the beast.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• Going home at the end of the day is a great way to start, but detachment is also cognitive.
  — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
• How does that sort of detachment make for better results for you?
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Marx describes the song as being about detachment, but in a positive sense of the word.
  — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2019
• 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
• In the summer of 1846, a detachment of sailors and Marines rowed ashore there, marched up the sandy street to the plaza of the little town of Yerba Buena and raised the American flag for the first time.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• That level of detachment from reality should set the high end of the scale for wrongness.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
• When food comes ready-made in a package or is passed through a drive-through window, there's an inevitable detachment.
  — Sarah Bradley, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• But the film hardly makes calm detachment, or following the status quo, seem sane.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
• This transition can feel like a quiet loss, a sudden detachment from a world that had become a home.
  — Big Think, 19 Mar. 2025