Example sentences for: detachment

How can you use “detachment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a sage Jedi Master called Qui-Gon Jinn, Neeson must maintain a Zen-like detachment from the universe around him--probably not a challenge when that universe will be added in later by computers.

  • We found that upon detachment, both cell lines exhibited increased levels of PTEN expression, due to the transcriptional activation of the PTEN gene.

  • (If you want to see one, click .) But we are looking at them with detachment, the emotionally "cool" state that Americans developed after World War I.

  • Like Inez Victor, the wife of a vacuous politician in Democracy (1985), she is quickly mastering a "capacity for passive detachment."

  • There's Zen detachment and there's Quaalude detachment, and The Phantom Menace falls into the second camp: It really does take place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.


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