How to Use disengage in a Sentence

disengage

verb

• Put the car in gear, and then slowly disengage the clutch while pressing on the gas pedal.
• The two dancers moved together in a series of quick movements before disengaging and leaping apart.
• If there is a malfunction, the gears will automatically disengage.
• The seeds will disengage from the flower and fall to the bottom of the bag.
  — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• Toward the end of the day, the armies disengaged and returned to their camps.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
• Unclick your seat belt or open the car door, and the system disengages.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• And being disengaged isn’t the worst thing of all time.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2018
• The gator was able to disengage itself from the net, much to the relief of the reptile and the TPWD crew.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• But if the lane markings fade or the road gets too twisty, the system will disengage.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2022
• For now, the two growth rates—R&D and revenue—are disengaged.
  — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• These tools disengage when the foot pound limit to which they have been set is reached.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• Still, no Democrat can be seen to be disengaged in the quest to keep Biden in office.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 1 July 2024
• Needs to do a better job disengaging and against the run.
  — The Kansas City Star, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Pull the tab on the release to disengage the lines, and the kite will fall harmlessly into the water.
  — Cameron Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2016
• The guard disengaged, police said, and the suspect got in his truck and crashed into him.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 17 July 2017
• June is caught off guard by this attack and cannot disengage.
  — refinery29.com, 20 June 2018
• This helps them disengage from the barking and get their mind on other things.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 12 July 2019
• All of these things are leading us to disengage, to do nothing about it.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2021
• Plays with good leverage and fires off the ball, and is stout in ability to disengage.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2021
• After a tough boot camp, your joints may need a jolt to disengage and relax.
  — Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, 25 Mar. 2021
• Two of the three garage doors were disengaged from their chain drive and possibly a point of entry.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2017
• He's logged just 25 minutes in the series and scored two points, looking out of sync and disengaged.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• Turn a knob just above its battery to set the torque limit of the clutch to disengage the drivetrain and motor.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• Tufo was able to disengage from the struggle, return to his car, and drive to the courthouse, the report said.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• For the first two games of the Lakers’ season, Julius Randle looked disengaged.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The engine shuts off at stop lights and half of the cylinders disengage when they are not needed on the highway to boost gas mileage.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Kendi was disengaged for most of high school, as concerned with his clothes as his grades.
  — Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• When no more grass clippings are exiting the grass chute, disengage the blade, turn off the mower, and remove the hose.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2024
• Teams that feel unheard are disengaged and less likely to contribute meaningfully.
  — Brent Gleeson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Swartz, the pro-immigration lobbyist, acknowledged that there are exceptions to the idea that the business community has disengaged from the politics of immigration entirely.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024