DETACHMENT in a Sentence
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123 example sentences for DETACHMENT, such as:
1. Try to take a more detached view.
2. The bag comes with detachable straps.
3. The handle is detachable from the bag.
4. He tried to detach the link from chain.
5. I have detached the watch from the chain.
2. The bag comes with detachable straps.
3. The handle is detachable from the bag.
4. He tried to detach the link from chain.
5. I have detached the watch from the chain.
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Meanings and Examples of DETACHMENT
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detachment
n. avoiding emotional involvement
n. the state of being isolated or detached
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1 "If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God," he added as if speaking to himself.
2 "That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment," he said.
3 Meeting Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutuzov's whole army.
4 Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself.
5 Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun.
6 In Bagration's detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs.
7 Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.
8 That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front of Bagration's detachment.
9 He found the Cossacks, inquired for the regiment operating with Platov's detachment and by evening found his master, Nicholas Rostov, quartered at Yankovo.
10 In front rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself accompanied by a numerous suite.
11 A French officer, returning from the advanced detachment, rode up to Murat and reported that the gates of the citadel had been barricaded and that there was probably an ambuscade there.
12 Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
13 A third has advanced along the Vladimir road, and a fourth, rather considerable detachment is stationed between Ruza and Mozhaysk.
14 This detachment halted at the outskirts of a forest, on the path leading from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovsk.
15 The result was a compromise which was inevitable: a small detachment was sent to Forminsk to attack Broussier.
Example Sentence:
1 She gazed at the body with almost clinical detachment.
2 The oft-quoted example of Nero playing the violin as Rome burned shows the Emperor's detachment from reality.
3 The detachment of the main force was ambushed by the enemy.
4 One of the panels had become detached from the main structure.
5 Try to take a more detached view.
6 I have detached the watch from the chain.
7 They detached their trailer and set up camp.
8 A number of men were detached to guard the right flank.
9 A psychoanalyst must maintain a detached point of view and stay uninvolved with his or her patients' personal lives.
10 Mr. Khodorkovsky recounted with a detached humor how, in the hours after a surprising clemency from his nemesis, President Vladimir V. Putin, he was awakened at 2 a.m.
11 He tried to detach the link from chain.
12 He stares detachedly into the middle distance, towards nothing in particular.
13 The bag comes with detachable straps.
14 The handle is detachable from the bag.