How to Use unmoor in a Sentence

unmoor

verb

• Months later, unmoored and in need of care, Smith drifted to VA in search of help.
  — Alex Horton, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2020
• One drawback to the scheme was that all those giant drains would drift unmoored through a stormy sea.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2017
• The sight of a fanatic severing the hand of a child accused of stealing unmoored him.
  — Lori Hinnant and and Maggie Michael, idahostatesman, 10 Dec. 2017
• And when the adventure is over, the tent can simply be unmoored from the vehicle’s roof rack and propped against a garage wall until the next time nature calls.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• Three World Series victories in 13 years unmoored a lot of the tension and angst that centered the Red Sox narrative for decades.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2017
• Set around Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the six-hour drama feels unmoored by its new location.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• That’s what happens when money floats into the ether of latter-day Wall Street, unmoored by connection to substance.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• But his paranoia is unmoored from the current political climate, which makes the film’s final veer back to Ed’s obsession seem all the more forced and hollow.
  — Mark Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
• As an artist, Sam Winston was often on the lookout for topsy-turvy projects – weird, sidelong ways to unmoor familiar habits or nudge his work in new directions.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 May 2020
• Especially onscreen: Overachiever Ted Kramer is seen unmoored by the simple task of making French toast for his son.
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• The point is to transport viewers into the singer’s vibrant inner life, unmoored by reality.
  — Allegra Frank, Vox, 17 June 2019
• Most importantly, these apps buck one of the oldest stereotypes of treatment—that unmooring a person from their life is the only way to curb addiction.
  — Zachary Siegel, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2018
• This announcement is partly the consequence of a White House that has been unmoored since Rob Porter’s departure amid allegations of abuse by his two ex-wives.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• No character reappears from one part to the next, but the book is unified by its sense of freedom as a disruptive force, as though its people were unmoored in something other than a physical sense.
  — Michael Gorra, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Months of personal upheaval had unmoored me, leaving me marginally employed and roving between apartment- and dog-sitting gigs.
  — Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
• And indeed, seeing Sandler transformed into Howard Ratner is unmooring for anyone who has spent enough time around him, onscreen or off.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• Economic jolts unmoored the city, which then turned to new industries for revitalization.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 1 May 2018
• Libby’s sympathies — and ours — are suddenly unmoored in the conflicting currents of love and resentment.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• But Catherall, the psychologist, offered a profile of Siatta as a Marine utterly unmoored by war.
  — C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2016
• Julia Azari has noted Trump is unmoored from his political party.
  — Mary E. Stuckey, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
• Stranded in the claustrophobic scramble of Calcutta, his childlike stature is again used as visual shorthand, only this time for his helplessness, unmoored in this sea of people.
  — Esquire, 25 Feb. 2017
• The floodgates were opened for ideas unmoored from experience and common sense, such as conspiracy theories.
  — Daniel Pipes, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
• Together, these two interstellar objects are rewriting what researchers know about the icy bodies—estimated to number as many as 1026—that float unmoored throughout the Milky Way.
  — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2019
• The granting of Indian independence—both overdue and, in execution, hasty—left him stunned and unmoored, and caused a fundamental rethinking of his views.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
• Academics were excited — and sometimes alarmed — by the radical approach of Jacques Derrida, who seemed set on unmooring the stability of language.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The aftermath of that episode left McCain completely, if temporarily, unmoored from party doctrine.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
• Fahey's swaggering thane falls apart easily once unmoored from his previous stance as a noble defender of Jack Hickey's Duncan.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
• Once the industry shifted to ready-to-wear, Capucci withdrew from the seasonal calendar to continue his craft, leaving his namesake line unmoored, despite several attempts to jump-start it.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
• Branson said many of these hacks are impractical, dangerous, and unmoored from basic principles of physics and physiology.
  — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020
• Human populations, too, were unmoored by disruptions in weather patterns.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017

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