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.
• Often such ideas will be all the more original for being dreamed up in a moment of detachment.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• The idea is that keeping the decedent in one’s life, in some form, is healthier than the detachment of, for instance, putting Dad six feet under.
  — Glenn McDonald, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• His vibratoless, nasal-toned, sotto voce croon floated with seeming detachment above his guitar.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 6 July 2019
• Rutherford explains that the parent experiencing the most detachment might want more contact with the child.
  — Kathryn Streeter, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2019
• Its title attests to the detachment of so many of us watching the news in our armchairs as neglect, devastation, and violent oppression flicker across the screen.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Just a few blocks away in the Mexican town of Carmen Xhan, a Mexican national guard detachment makes its rounds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Tunde recounts his troubled upbringing with a hypnotic mix of tenderness and analytic detachment.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Thacker explained that the soldiers who arrived Saturday are part of a personal security detachment.
  — Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 29 June 2019
• 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
• Emotional effects: Numbness, tired but wired feeling, buzzing anxiety, feelings of dread, irritability, sudden swell of sadness, detachment, feeling trapped, extreme panic, or blunted feelings.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
• That suspicion and detachment are what Rutsch, a former computer systems administrator turned empathy educator, aims to dissolve through empathy cafes and other similar events.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024