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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No, the detachment of soldiers is not going there to help, to the extent this is permitted by law, solve the crisis at the border.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 May 2023
• Seeing the body filled her with a sense of both connectedness and detachment.
  — Mariana Saffon, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2021
• His detachment has an authority that now seems almost out of the reach of any of us, let alone a politician.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
• The album invites listeners to experience a journey through love’s emotional spectrum—from the security and closeness of a relationship’s early stages to the eventual sense of detachment and heartbreak that may follow.
  — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
• Future drone swarms will dissolve and reconstitute themselves effortlessly in units of every size, much as elite special-operations forces are built from scalable detachments, each of which is capable of sovereign command.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024