Example sentences for: disembodied

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

  • But these photographs, seen against the backdrop of Avedon's protean career, seem strangely cold and disembodied.

  • But she has developed a disembodied, ghostly way of writing about movies--a criticism of lowered expectations.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, stereoscope enthusiast, wrote of the experience that “the shutting out of surrounding objects, and the concentration of the whole attention, which is a consequence of this, produce a dreamlike exaltation…in which we seem to leave the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another, like disembodied spirits” (Holmes 1861).

  • The language is simple and authentic; the witness carries a credibility that the anonymous, disembodied narrators of Dole's anti-Clinton jeremiads could never claim.

  • Reflected there is an image of a man in a room alone--isolated from his fellows, unneeded by his family, staring into a computer screen on which he seeks a disembodied fortune or, if that fortune fails, types a suicide note.


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