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• A detachment of cavalrymen rushed the enemy's position.From the entry rush
• Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.From the entry motorized
• However, exposure has since led to a rapid deterioration. including the detachment of side panels.2023 March 8, “Network News: Unique LNWR survivor offered for restoration”, in RAIL, number 978, page 27. From the entry restorable
• And even in ordinary times, conspicuous consumption violates the principle of detachment.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 5, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry on the nose
• The warbled and robotic voice once meant to denote distance and detachment has now been warmed over.2018 November 24, Charles Holmes, “The Raw, Rushed Making of '808s & Heartbreak,' Kanye West's Most Influential Album”, in Rolling Stone…. From the entry warm over
• The mounted detachments at hand had found the heavily brushed country to be difficult for cavalry operations.2015, Clifford Dowdey, Lee: A Biography. From the entry brushed
• Mara watched her misshod feet with fey detachment as the person that was herself left the glade.2012, Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts, Mistress of the Empire, page 67. From the entry misshod
• If you do not consent to detachment, God will miss his Godhead, and man will miss himself.2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry miss oneself
• Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath…. From the entry powerlevel
• Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry crew
• She was anticipating the upcoming truck ride to Tihwa, the capital of Sinkiang, with a certain detachment.1995, Peter Rand, China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution…. From the entry Tihwa
• An almost Olympian detachment is of great help to the colonoscopist.1975, Claude Welch, Stephen Hedberg, Polypoid Lesions of the Gastrointestinal Tract, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry colonoscopist
• Firefish, a drone boat, is the second radio-controlled target used by the detachment.1968 July, “Long-Distance Crews”, in All Hands, number 618, page 27. From the entry drone
• At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry dicker
• Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry psychical
• This isn’t an entirely new phenomenon since it seems to be rooted in workers feeling a sense of detachment from their jobs.2024 December 22, Pavithra Mohan, “What is ‘revenge quitting’ – and how could it impact you in 2025”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry revenge quitting
• After detachment of the periost, a small bony fenestration was created by 2 mm K-wire cortical corner drillings and connecting oscillating saw cuts.2015 August 23, Andreas Toepfer et al., “Bilateral diaphyseal bone cysts of the tibia mimicking shin splints in a young professional…. From the entry periost
• A small detachment of bersaglieri, which rashly went to see what was going on, was then wiped out by a force of armed peasants.2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 244. From the entry bersagliere
• In patients with associated maculopathy, OCT demonstrates a retinal detachment with a typical convex schisis of the outer retinal layer in most patients.2011, Elias I. Traboulsi, editor, Genetic Diseases of the Eye, 2nd edition, page 137. From the entry schisis
• Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 207. From the entry biffo
• The postmodern hero is street-smart and adwise; he sees through everything; decodes everything, mostly for fun; and is always protected by his ironic detachment.1989 January 16, Jackson Lears, “Deride and Conquer”, in The Nation, volume 248, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Nation Company, Inc.…. From the entry adwise
• In June of that year, Lin led a Red Army detachment to the village of Tsaihsi, in the Shanghang county of Fukien Province.1970, Martin Ebon, “Boy from Hupeh (1907-1930)”, in Lin Piao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN…. From the entry Shanghang
• Only an artist of the unintensity and detachment of Longfellow could so dedicate himself, under American conditions, to the world of poetry.1925, Southwest Review, volume 10, page 46. From the entry unintensity
• Aegosexual (also known as anegosexual, historically referred to as autochorissexual) is a micro-label within the asexual spectrum that pertains to individuals experiencing a detachment from the object of arousal.[2023 February 19, Sohini Chakraborty, “The Spectrum of Asexuality a Deep Dive into the Community, Its History, and the Legal Barriers”…. From the entry anegosexual
• Although continuing some of the pre-Nakba patterns, Zionist toponymic strategies in the post-Nakba period pursued more drastically memoricide and erasure and the detachment of the Palestinians from their history.2015, Nur Masalha, “Settler-Colonialism, Memoricide and Indigenous Toponymic Memory: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the…. From the entry memoricide
• Then around 2 pm, a detachment of Maratha irregular horse approached and engaged the allied contingent of Mysore horse that were riding forward outpost duty for the British.2003, Randolf G. S. Cooper, The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India, Cambridge University Press, page 126. From the entry Maratha
• Both the USA and Russia like to demonstrate their technopower and indulge in narratives of technological infallibility and the highest potency of human power, control, cool detachment and rationality.2000, Mette Bryld, Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred, Zed Books, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry technopower
• The defense complex itself, not unlike that organized in and around Abu Ageila, consisted of several batallion strongpoints outguarded and flank protected by platoon, detachment, and company sized units.1962 May-June, Stuart A. Beckley, “"Operation Kadesh", Mobility Masterpiece”, in Armor, page 60. From the entry outguard
• Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.1956, Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945, Office of the Chief of Military History, page 179. From the entry Lienchiang
• The College at Loyola had taught him, not to fear them exactly, but to observe them with detachment as one studies the works of a machine.1938, Julian Duguid, Father Coldstream, page 148. From the entry womanproof
• The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.1927, H. P. Lovecraft, “Introduction”, in Supernatural Horror in Literature, published 1938. From the entry macabre
• Mason, who was my informant on this subject, he left as a memory of his visit a reputation for mental detachment that was Olympic in its character.1916, Biochemical Bulletin. From the entry Olympic
• He pierced with his sombre detachment the plate-glass of ironmongers and saddlers, while Strether flaunted an affinity with the dealers in stamped letter-paper and in smart neckties.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry flaunt
• Taking the 18th-century tale at a steady, relentless drumbeat, and with a seductively cool detachment, Kubrick guides you through his hero’s rise and fall, bookended by two sensational duelling scenes.2016 July 28, Peter Bradshaw, “Barry Lyndon review – Kubrick's intimate epic of utter lucidity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry bookend
• I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN. From the entry madchild

Meaning of detachment

1. noun The action of detaching; separation.
2. noun The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
3. noun Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.

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How do you use detachment in a sentence?

Detachment is used as a noun. For example: “A detachment of cavalrymen rushed the enemy's position.”

What is a short sentence with detachment?

“A detachment of cavalrymen rushed the enemy's position.”

What does detachment mean?

Detachment means the action of detaching; separation.