detach
Example Sentences
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With its neat rows of detached family homes, complete with grass lawns and porches, Miraflores could be mistaken for a typical American suburb.
From BBC
“You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.”
From Los Angeles Times
They focused on crustal delamination, a process in which sections of Earth's crust become compressed, chemically altered, and dense enough to detach and sink into the mantle below.
From Science Daily
Soon after, the dark filament detached on one side and shot outward, unrolling violently as it moved.
From Science Daily
Not that I’m detached from it, but it definitely has this life of its own.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
