detach
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
Images of moments before the November crash showed that during takeoff, the freighter’s left engine structure detached and fell on the ground.
You don’t have to deny the pain caused by recent inflation to acknowledge that affordability in the abstract, detached from any circumstance, is meaningless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
