How to Use disconnected in a Sentence

disconnected

adjective
  • The phone lines are all disconnected.
  • Her biography reads like a series of disconnected stories.
  • Kyle mentioned the disconnected call, but calls are dropped all the time.
    Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The person on the other end of the line won't be able to call you back if you get disconnected, either.
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Let go of the habits that are keeping you disconnected from yourself and those around you.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2022
  • Some of the phone numbers in the data set are disconnected.
    NBC News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The milkshakes were done, and the phone was already disconnected, too.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But Ward came to feel disconnected from her own mantra.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 June 2021
  • Prior to the renovation, the home had a room added on which was very bright and airy, yet felt very disconnected from the rest of the home.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In the end, this call was also disconnected, due to low battery.
    Noam Barkan, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • New Jersey looked disconnected and confused on the ice, and its youth showed.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • By Monday evening, the line was disconnected and no longer in service.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The worst part is not being on the road with the team, not being around them every day, feeling disconnected.
    oregonlive, 17 June 2020
  • In the cellar with him is a black, antique telephone with a disconnected cord.
    Jennifer Yuma, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Devils looked disconnected and confused in Games 1 and 2.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Just buy the smart model and keep it disconnected from the internet.
    Whitson Gordon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Some disconnected ejections end in purple light and curly blue lines on the left also emerge.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 July 2023
  • The group threw out a series of disconnected arguments to try to make the case that Mr. Trump really won.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • There has to be some reason that people who are so disconnected from their money want more of it.
    Ross Levin, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • Munroe's book does not have a theme, making the chapters a set of disconnected and self-contained short stories.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2019
  • All three phone lines were out of service or disconnected.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • That’s a big plus in a world where high center-of-gravity crossovers can often feel disconnected from the road.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Why should New York have a single large park and San Francisco a bunch of disconnected ones?
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • This new research showed that even the disconnected GBM cells have a dangerous role.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • By now the videos total more than 400, each an artifact of a disconnected time.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • On the other, last season’s arc about Ellen coming out of the closet while serving in the Oval Office felt a bit disconnected from the rest of the series.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • One is hitched to a river and growing; the other is disconnected and dying.
    Fox News, 29 June 2021
  • Fix emitters that are broken or clogged, tubes that are disconnected, drip lines that have been chewed by puppies, and faucets and hoses that are leaky.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • My list reflects how the mainstream and underground rap landscapes feel more disconnected than ever, which is why of my 27 rap album picks, some will and some won’t crossover with Pitchfork’s Albums of the Year list.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Everyone’s great, and perhaps we’re supposed to draw parallels about other children/parent stories here, but mostly, the whole thing feels so disconnected from the main plot.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024

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