Detach

//dɪˈtæt͡ʃ//

"Detach" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Writing English for me has nothing whatsoever to do with England. You have to detach this international language from its land of origin.

Meditation exercises help me detach for a certain period of time from the material world and connect to the calm of the spiritual world.

I didn't detach them.

The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.

When you try to detach ivy from fences, it will bring them down.

Ziri wanted to detach the ivy from the fence.

Once it enters orbit, a landing probe will detach and land on the planet’s Utopia Planitia region, where it will release a small solar-powered rover that will explore the surface for at least three months.

Dead leaves detach from their branches.

You don't prepare for death. You detach from life.

to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment

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The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table—the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.

to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.

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