Antony seeing that Caesar was gaining ground attempted to attract the populace by various baits, to see if he could detach the people from his rival and number them among his own forces.
He promised that he would act as leader in the war, and announced that in this way he could detach many of the provinces, inasmuch as they were hostile to the Romans owing to the latter's constant ill treatment of them.
Loaded with presents from the Imperial treasury, Olga returned to her son, whom she strove fruitlessly to detach from the gods of his fathers to the worship of the new deities she had brought from Constantinople.
Grouchy refused to do so, or even to detach part of his force in that direction.
As early as five o'clock, Napoleon had been obliged to detach Lobau's infantry and Domont's horse to check these new enemies.
In one word, promise him what you please, and I will consent, provided you annihilate this cabal and detach him from the interests of the Princes.
May not this indicate that the first effect of the primary rays is to detach a neutral doublet, consisting of a positive and negative charge, this doublet being the same from whatever system it is detached?
In order to detach the ice it is customary to cut off the supply of cold brine and circulate brine at a higher temperature through the cells.
Sixtus made overtures to the Duke of Milan to detach him from the alliance, but, apparently, they failed of their object.
Francesco and Giovanna had never ceased trying to detach the old debauchee from his lascivious entanglements.
As these coelom-pouches or coelom-sacs detach themselves from the primitive gut, a double body-cavity is formed (Figures 1.
Some of them, however, as I observed, detachthemselves spontaneously and independently of any alarm.
The individuals of Neritina subsulcata that I kept in a large bottle in my cabin, used frequently in the course of a night to detach themselves from the sides and drop down into the water below.
When such scenes occurred my soul drank in their delights without analyzing them; but now, with what vigor they detach themselves on the dark background of my troubled life!
To one who watches attentively a thousand amusing and interesting little incidents detach themselves from the general confusion.
With a downward quizzical glance Gertrude fixed the girl so that for a moment she stood fascinated, unable to detach her eyes from Gertrude's.
It is painful to think however that Jimmie's youth will the more certainly and completely detach him from me in the end.
Having attached himself to the American for better or for worse, no human power could serve to detach him, so he asserted.
His face twisted into a grin as he tossed the revolver aside, then undertook to detach a stone from the crumbling curb.
He could not detachthe stone, so he fumbled farther along the curbing.
Nelson had planned in case of such an encounter to detach three of his ships to attack the transports.
In their rapid marches, a multitude of marauders of all nations, against whom it is necessary to keep on the watch, detach themselves from their wings.
Preferring to consider Vernon a pragmatical moralist played upon by a sententious drone, he thought it politic to detach them, and vanquish Clara while she was in the beaten mood, as she had appeared before Vernon's vexatious arrival.
One of the knights thus tortured, looked so intently at the king that Philippe could not detach his eyes from him.
He was, accordingly, very anxious to complete the treaty of peace, or at least to detach America from the French alliance, as soon as possible.
Accordingly, it seemed better to take Vergennes at his word, though not in the sense in which he meant it, and, by granting all that the Americans could reasonably desire, to detachthem from the French alliance as soon as possible.
He gives His grace to whom He pleases; but much depends on this: he who begins to receive this grace must make a firm resolution to detach himself from all things, and esteem this grace according to reason.
When a dandelion head is ripe, a child's breath can detach the winged seeds; but until it is, no tempest can move them.
And, of course, being all these things, he would have no firm grip of Christ, from whom such tempers and views were sure to detach him.
And proceeding to detach from her belt a little embroidered purse, she emptied its contents into her lap.
Enormous oak branches, previously prepared, detach themselves from the tops of their trunks, and come down crashing upon the heads of the soldiers, killing or mutilating them.
Thus the flowers of the male Vallisneria are produced under water, and when ripe detach themselves from the plant, and rising to the surface are wafted by the air to the female flowers.
The sublimate will not injure the skin, and nothing can detach it from the parts where the alcohol has left it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detach" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
