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How to use the word detached in a Sentence?

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The hand is closed, so the thumb is not detached. We did this to make it easier for little hands to dress and undress the doll.

My First Barbie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm as close to Ukraine as I could be, almost everyone I love is there. It's where I was born, it's where I grew up, so this is the worst possible thing that could ever happen to me, i don't know how to put into words how much my heart is breaking. I'm detached from my life here in the US. Mentally, 100 % of me is in Ukraine.

Anna Afanasieva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I took the oath of office five years ago, I promised Iowans that I would never lose sight of who I was working for, that I wouldn’t become detached from the problems they were facing, from the problems I had faced myself. But you don’t have to check groceries to see what high inflation does to people. You just need to step outside the D.C. Bubble. Talk to Americans about what’s on their mind. Ask them: What are your concerns? What keeps you up at night?

Kim Reynolds

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was neither called nor pushed by politics into UniCredit and I continue to be detached from political pressure.

Pier Carlo Padoan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The unwarranted attacks on this event, originated by those besmirching the community, are detached from the facts, it's sad that nobody verified our plans before attacking us.

Chaim Jacobowitz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Remember when my retina was detached because Charley threw the train at my eye ? well, guys it's not over. So apparently after you have that retina reattachment surgery, it's very common to get cataracts, so that happened to me. So I'm actually going to leave in 20 minutes and have cataract surgery.

Savannah Guthrie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When you make the decisive criteria ethnicity, then you have a problem, why are they not targeting Svendborg ? Because there are more White Danes living there ? And that is problematic. It is detached from solving the problem, and you're linking problems to ethnicity.

Eddie Omar Rosenberg Khawaja

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I sincerely hope Perrin Larton never comes to understand the implications of Perrin Larton seeing detached hearts beating independently because then Perrin Larton would have to confront the realization that with intact fetuses that just fell out, Perrin Larton was actually vivisecting and killing a living fetus.

Forrest Smith

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It felt much more businesslike and detached, and lost some of the wisdom that made it so entertaining.

James Shanahan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Prices seem detached from their underlying fundamentals.

The ECB

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Given what the world looks like right now, this approach seems detached from reality.

Hal Rogers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Thats rare in scientific persona, einstein already has become a myth detached from his real person, and this myth will perpetuate itself for years to come and I dont see an end to it.

Hanoch Gutfreund

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I've never seen an instance when the President is so detached from the reality of what's going on, this has not been treated seriously enough. Some of the things President Donald Trump did and does jeopardize the real national security.

Bob Woodward

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I've never seen an instance when the President is so detached from the reality of what's going on.

Omarosa Manigault Newman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is not true. It is false and completely detached from reality because Russia is a democracy and we all live under the constitution.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke’s on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix The WHCD or end The WHCD.

Associated Press

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The president said that the South Americans are securing their nuclear materials…. I’d been up late nights unable to sleep thinking about the South American nuclear issue, the president is operating in a world that is detached from ours.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Whenever I put my Superman costume on as a kid, I didn't have X-ray vision. I had desperately short sight and had to wear big. thick glasses to see, i couldn't leave (glasses) in the phone box like Clark Kent could. That short sight lead me to have a detached retina.

Mark Pollock

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The general public, when they hear greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, their eyes glaze over, it feels so big and detached from their lives. They're very disempowered to do something about it. And I think it's been a big barrier to more aggressive action. But food is one of those ways to tell this story in a way people can really relate to -- and, ultimately, in a way people can incorporate, and become an actor in the solution over time.

Sam Kass

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The first round of the Internet is creating a very individualistic, detached experiences, in one way it has even taken us away from social networking. We are still in a box in a room. I think when the Internet becomes this kind of fabric on top of everyday life it will open up new opportunities to reestablish group and commonwealth experiences.

Gareth Price

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Power generation, particularly solar and wind, is basically the only sector detached from the current economic crisis in Brazil, solar is very quick to install so it has a huge advantage over other sources in the current situation.

Mario Lima

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While this shameful act may be an isolated incident, what’s not isolated are the almost daily reports that feed the perception that VA leadership are detached from the urgent challenges facing returning veterans, but it’s even more troubling that Ms. Paul’s shockingly poor judgment did not merit immediate firing. She should have been fired the minute such poor judgment was discovered and failing to do so only reinforces VA's track record of failing to hold its employees accountable.

Pete Hegseth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Today the consumer is completely detached from the clothes he or she wears and from who makes them, it happens far away so we don't see it... Out of sight, out of mind.

Livia Firth

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

Benito Mussolini

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9 years ago

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