How to Use detachment in a Sentence

detachment

noun

• A detachment of soldiers was called to assist the police.
• I wish the article had approached the issue with a bit more detachment.
• The form is perforated to make detachment of the bottom section easier.
• So there’s some detachment from the alien source here.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• Lessons in healthy detachment from other stuff rarely go to waste.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• But some critics were put off by its pretense and air of detachment.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• The concept of true detachment from work feels foreign to a lot of us these days.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• How does that sort of detachment make for better results for you?
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Treatments aim to support new nail growth or treat the cause of the nail's detachment.
  — Brandi Jones, Health, 7 June 2025
• Instead, keep a healthy amount of detachment from the outcome.
  — Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• The hardest thing for me still is to bring detachment to the things that are outside my control.
  — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
• Even the Mahler looks on this unbearable pain with a kind of detachment.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• One of them, a fair- haired youth, inspected his weapon with the calm detachment of a marksman.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
• Going home at the end of the day is a great way to start, but detachment is also cognitive.
  — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
• Marx describes the song as being about detachment, but in a positive sense of the word.
  — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2019
• When food comes ready-made in a package or is passed through a drive-through window, there's an inevitable detachment.
  — Sarah Bradley, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
• The best stress relief gifts serve as methods for relaxation and detachment from the world around you.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• Seeing the body filled her with a sense of both connectedness and detachment.
  — Mariana Saffon, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2021
• But as with all virtues, the effort to achieve Olympian detachment becomes its own vice when taken too far.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020
• Recalled due to the potential for safety bar detachment while in use.
  — Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
• Her time away was filled not with detachment, but with deliberate healing.
  — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• That level of detachment from reality should set the high end of the scale for wrongness.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
• His detachment has an authority that now seems almost out of the reach of any of us, let alone a politician.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
• The longer this detachment goes untreated, the higher your risk of lasting vision loss in that eye.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Oct. 2018
• Top actors start skipping the Oscars with a blasé detachment.
  — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
• The point isn’t detachment but learning how not to lose yourself in the process of managing someone else.
  — Moira Forbes, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
• Loose bolts attaching the wheel to the column can lead to complete detachment of the wheel, Ford said.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2018
• In the end, a cavalry detachment from Fort Myer helped to clear the street.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Both Navy ships had a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment on board.
  — Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2025