How to Use disconnected in a Sentence

disconnected

adjective
  • The phone lines are all disconnected.
  • Her biography reads like a series of disconnected stories.
  • Kyle mentioned the disconnected call, but calls are dropped all the time.
    Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Let go of the habits that are keeping you disconnected from yourself and those around you.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2022
  • New Jersey looked disconnected and confused on the ice, and its youth showed.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Devils looked disconnected and confused in Games 1 and 2.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Some disconnected ejections end in purple light and curly blue lines on the left also emerge.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 July 2023
  • This new research showed that even the disconnected GBM cells have a dangerous role.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • On the other, last season’s arc about Ellen coming out of the closet while serving in the Oval Office felt a bit disconnected from the rest of the series.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Fix emitters that are broken or clogged, tubes that are disconnected, drip lines that have been chewed by puppies, and faucets and hoses that are leaky.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Whom will that make more comfortable and whom will that make more disconnected?
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • What causes most females to have more stress and feel disconnected?
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2022
  • There are a variety of reasons that might cause females to feel more stressed and disconnected.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But the exchange seems wholly disconnected from what Loki is up to throughout the season’s first four episodes.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Isolated in the cellar, an old disconnected landline phone is Jack’s only connection to the world beyond his four walls, and in the dead of night, the phone rings.
    Emily Maskell, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The big challenge for the downtown is for city and business leaders to craft ways to expand the footprints of these largely disconnected sections of the urban core.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Run each irrigation zone and walk the lines looking for leaks, drips, disconnected lines, etc.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The only item is the basement is a disconnected telephone that begins ringing.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Do your best to stay level-headed, but not disconnected.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The clip is filled with peculiar touches, too, like Lamar chatting on a disconnected phone or eating a late-night snack while sitting on a kitchen island in the dark.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The scammer posed as a Wells Fargo agent and got the customer to send a $500 payment to his own phone number before the customer got suspicious and disconnected.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Louisville has a higher-than-average rate of disconnected youth, at 13.4%.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2022
  • Lanzilotti’s ahupua’a explored a unique sound in each of its movements: wind-like tones in the first, energetic riffs in the second, and slow, disconnected melodies in the third, which the composer compared to whale songs.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Until 1941, the regional conflicts on the Asian mainland and in Europe and the Mediterranean were largely disconnected.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Many feel disconnected from the sentences that sandwich them, and offer little instant utility, which may…be the point?
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 14 June 2023
  • Leave aside just how disconnected from the reality of the DeSantis campaign this is.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The ability to read text through the camera Point your camera at any text, like on a menu, or a sign, and press the symbol that looks like a disconnected square with lines inside that appears within the camera.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • He also was known for building bridges with other religions and reaching out to Catholics who felt disconnected from their church.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
  • There were fun quirks galore in the long white gloves, black and white bow ties and skintight gold- or black-capped boots with white boxer-like lace ups — which sometimes felt disconnected from the general aesthetic.
    Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Signs could include extreme fear or guilt, loss of sleep or appetite, and feeling disconnected to the child, according to Colbert.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023

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