Sample Sentences for
detach
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    These days, she seems emotionally detached whenever she talks about him.
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    ...he saw a brown wall of fur detach itself from the forest to his rear and come down on him like a runaway truck. He just had time to see that it was a moose,  (source)
    detach = separate (come out of)
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    Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.  (source)
    detach = separate
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    I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling, but I'm not.  (source)
    detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
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    To get a helm over his head the armorer had to detach the visor.†  (source)
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    There, detaching from the kitchen door like a wraith, stands the Commandant.†  (source)
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    He sees me looking at him and detaches himself from his pod.  (source)
    detaches = separates
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    Once upon a time Miri had planned to wear her bridesmaid dress with its detachable organza overskirt to the ninth-grade prom, but she'd decided against going.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Nothing affects me much just now except rather detachedly.†  (source)
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    I hated her for the fact that at the age of twenty-six I lived in a box room in a semidetached house just so she could have her illegitimate son in with her in the bigger bedroom.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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    But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetached means not and reverses the meaning of detached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I have been haunted, I must confess, by an element of presumption in the sense of being an intruder upon the terrain of an experience so bestial, so inexplicable, so undetachably and rightfully the possession alone of those who suffered and died, or survived it.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetachably means not and reverses the meaning of detachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Two shadows detached themselves from the gloom as Winnie and Jesse came up.  (source)
    detached = separated
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