How to Use unattached in a Sentence

unattached

adjective
  • My brother is currently unattached.
  • Your unattached clips may belong to any of the face-up suits.
    Ben Orlin, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The unattached high school athletes range in age from 13 to 19.
    Richard Obert, azcentral, 9 June 2020
  • The two oldest boys share a room in our unattached guesthouse, my youngest son’s room is in the main house.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The two eldest boys share a room in our unattached guesthouse; my youngest son’s room is in the main house.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But the unattached label was leaning against the blank panel on which it will be hung.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • So Goree, listed at 6-foot and 217 pounds last year, had the option of running unattached this spring.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 2 May 2023
  • As far as lanyards, forget it: the unattached gas cap is bound for the parts bin of history.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
  • In the song, The Weeknd also seems to refer to his carefree and unattached lifestyle, filled with fame, money, and girls.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Nov. 2019
  • They were urged to only use unattached flowers and not lei, whose strings can harm marine life.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 30 June 2019
  • An unattached Haley Schwan is the mischievous upbeat spirit of the piece.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Jane appears to be unattached, at the moment, but has opened up about her trek back into the dating world as a single mom.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Beaulieu ran in a different race as an unattached club runner at that meet.
    Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • What sounded like a loose bolt rolling back and forth behind the dashboard turned out to be a loose bolt that had become unattached from the left sun visor.
    Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The side brushes come unattached, but popping them on is very simple.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Within a day Joe and Kathleen are unattached and ready to spend their lives together.
    Susanna Fogel, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2018
  • So, um, the message appears to be that Musk is single, unattached, and not flying around the world to see Dakota Johnson.
    Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In the eighteenth century a career with the East India Company was a throw of the dice for unattached young British men.
    Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
  • An unattached shed was also entered by force and lawn equipment was stolen.
    Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
  • The name was shortened to the Reds but remained unattached with communism – or quality baseball -- for most of the next six decades.
    Chris Lamb, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The ones getting the most out of this season are those few quirky fans — and the unattached observers, like sportswriters — who enjoy watching both Bay Area teams kick butt.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 July 2021
  • If the couple has a lot of single friends, invite them to attend unattached and all the friends can mingle together.
    Myka Meier, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Every dollar matters for the Stars, who still have to re-sign Heiskanen as well, and could use any unattached money to add depth to their forward group.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
  • Society-wide, there’s been an emphasis on unattached youth who don’t work or go to school.
    Matthew Casey, azcentral, 10 May 2020
  • Farmer Wants a Wife connects four hunky, hoe-bearing men with a gaggle of unattached women who aren't having any luck finding a mate in the big city.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Mbatha-Raw seems equally unattached to the idea of winning statuettes.
    Danielle Stein Chizzik, Town & Country, 10 Feb. 2015
  • What to Consider The chair feels slightly bulky, and the unattached headrest could get lost easily.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
  • And there can be different rules depending on whether the garage is attached or unattached.
    Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Despite having their top two racers, twin sisters Megan and Bethany Hasz, run unattached, the women’s team placed third.
    Paul Hodowanic, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The officers found an unattached door and laid the woman on in it, improvising for a stretcher.
    Yael Halon, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2021

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