How to Use detached in a Sentence

detached

adjective
  • The house has a detached garage.
  • The flames had spared only their brick chimney and a detached garage.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2021
  • The detached garage with an upstairs apartment was built in 1925, a year before the main house.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • Nimmo had three hits along with a hard lineout in his first game since a detached hand ligament sidelined him two months ago.
    Jake Seiner, courant.com, 3 July 2021
  • The detached guest house contains an office, a bedroom and a bathroom in about 1,200 square feet.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • The house has a detached garage that was included in the sale but is not located on the lot where the house stands and cannot be reached directly from it.
    Donna Engle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 June 2021
  • The suspect, a man, 38, had barricaded himself in the home’s detached garage.
    cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • Most characters have a very detached, sarcastic approach to conflict.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Some of the home’s amenities include a 2-car garage, a detached carriage house, and a cupola that was transformed into an art studio.
    Jada Jackson, House Beautiful, 24 May 2021
  • Property size: 1,920 square feet with three bedrooms, two full and a half bathroom, two fireplaces and a detached one-car garage.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2021
  • Haramaty says one of her proudest achievements is converting her late father from a detached urbanite into a mothing fan.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
  • Many Black residents took jobs working for families on the white side of Tulsa, and some lived in detached servant quarters on weekdays.
    Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
  • There were seven fires not caused by fireworks, however, with three structure fires, a fire in a detached garage, a fire in a commercial structure, a fire in a vacant structure, and one grass fire.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • Their residence, where the newlyweds nested comfortably during pandemic shutdowns, is a three-bedroom home with a detached garage.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • The pill and the plant stuff keep me calm and detached.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • For detached garages, leave the door open to allow air to flow.
    USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There is a detached garage sharing the 4,356-square-foot lot.
    oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The sale of the detached house in the 5300 block of Thomas Ave., Oakland, has been finalized.
    Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The first is a detached office geared to those who work from home.
    Robyn A. Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Past a ranch house, the sedan stopped outside a large detached garage.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Deputies were called to the home about 3:30 p.m. and found Lewis in the loft of a detached garage on the property with a gunshot wound to the chest.
    Caroline Silva, ajc, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The sale of the detached house in the 200 block of Almeria Ave., Fremont, has been finalized.
    Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Anderson used a lighter and propane grill to start a fire in a detached garage in Bond Hill.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The house has four bedrooms and a guest apartment as well as a detached garage.
    E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In addition to the swimming pool, what used to be a detached garage is now a pool house.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2022
  • The 4,791-square-foot lot includes an outdoor Viking kitchen and a detached garage.
    oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The detached tone of the story appears to echo their discontent.
    Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The movie theater flaunts a fiberoptic starry sky, akin to a new Rolls Royce, and at the far rear of the lot lies a detached guesthouse.
    James McClain, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The exception, of course, is any game that requires detached Joy-Con controllers.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 10 July 2024
  • The detached guest house contains a total of five bathrooms and a kitchen; the grounds also include a tennis court, swimming pool, and greenhouse amid acres of rolling lawns.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 July 2024

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