How To Use Disconnected In A Sentence

Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
For one thing, it is still "AAU" (All About Us) as if what happens in the US economy in a globalized world is somehow separate and disconnected to what happens to people "out there. Danny Schechter: The Economic Debate Has Yet to Target Key Issues
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Lena found her there a minute later, slumped down in the piles of paper, listlessly pawing through them, disconnected and withdrawn, a mental patient in a dayroom. NEVER WAVE GOODBYE

One researcher has called the neem scene an "uncharted jungle" of miscellaneous assertions, disconnected details, and limitless possibilities. 2 The Reality
He is completely disconnected from the real world, pursuing a particular path. Times, Sunday Times
Today the club's electricity has been disconnected because of non-payment.
After the respirator is disconnected, the camera pans over to the monitor as she gradually flatlines, followed by a close-up of Julia's dead hand being held by Sally Field. April 2004
As a result, we have become more disconnected to the healing foods that are provided through the different seasons. Times, Sunday Times
Is this another stuffy book by a disconnected reggae academic?
The formerly disconnected ideas are gradually shown to fit into each other.
The film opens on a small evening party: four individuals dancing, swaying, laughing disconnectedly.
No longer was it a droning, meaningless march of disconnected words. Literacy News – 55th Edition « News « Literacy News
The power of the book comes, though, from the poignant descriptions of the well-meaning but disconnected members and friends of the family.
The Post's Michael Laris writes about a small Republican enclave in heavily Democratic Montgomery County, where voters sometimes feel disconnected from the elected officials making the decisions. Lori's A.M. Buzz: Who's calling, please?
The problem has been attributed to temporary traffic lights being set up in the area when the nearby permanent traffic lights were not disconnected and synchronised.
Sullivan writes that to focus narrowly on Khamenei and the Royal [sic] Guard, would put us in the same place we were in the 1970s: out of touch with the situation on the ground, and disconnected from the concerns of ordinary Iranians. Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology
One night the junction between his gastrostomy tube and the feeding tube became disconnected.
Feeling disconnected in a chattering city of twinkling lights. Times, Sunday Times
I felt completely disconnected from the outside world. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Is there or is there not advantage to be gained by trying to interleave the supplementary material into the book so that material appears in a single series rather than in two disconnected series.
Before you begin be sure the lamp is disconnected from the wall plug.
That is not to deny some young people are disconnected from society. Times, Sunday Times
If the prolapse is severe, the valve leaflets can become disconnected from tendons that stretch between the leaflets and the heart muscle. Mitral Stenosis, Mitral Regurgitation and Mitral Valve Prolapse
With the engine off and the battery disconnected, remove the flame arrestor and inspect the carburetor.
On those boats that have internal halyards, all halyards (except, again, the main) should be disconnected from the deck and hauled through until the shackles are two-blocked at the masthead.
But actually it's one of the mycelia, the disconnected islands of Met-like cables that---" "I know what a mycelium is," said Aubry. METAPLANETARY
On the morning of October 31, somewhat disconnected from the world, I suddenly remembered it was Halloween. Shambhala SunSpace » Sun Staff
They are acutely aware that their elite backgrounds make them disconnected. Times, Sunday Times
Being retired means that I can get kind of disconnected from the calendar. 12/19/07: Zero to sixty
Over several hours of negotiations, police tried to call the barricaded man, but he had disconnected his home phone and damaged his cell, Kozak said. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
More importantly, rhodium has disconnected from its cousin platinum, falling 31% this year while platinum is down less than 10%. Rhodium's Rare Opportunity
But the most profound voice in popular music today inveighing against spiritual alienation and emotional disconnectedness comes from New Jersey.
Through the dialer, users' modems are silently disconnected, then reconnected to the internet through an international long-distance number.
It does not rise before us in detached and disconnected proportions, like that of spiritual loveliness, but in crowds, and in solitude, and in all the throngful varieties of thought and feeling and action, the symmetrical whole, the beautiful perfection comes up in the vision of memory, and stands, like Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
At first, beginners understand little and produce nothing, then gradually they understand individual words, fixed formulas, and disconnected items in speech or text.
And without the ties of kinship, we would be nothing more than a disconnected horde.
This was a new take on the disconnected undercut he has worn for years, arguably starting the trend.
A careless daily inspection after rigging may easily leave the glider with one aileron or the elevator disconnected.
The electricity company disconnected our electricity.
`You didn't do so good today," she told them in her uninflected, disconnected way. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
Sloane stared at the phone, the word disconnected shouting at him. Bodily Harm
It was the disconnected smoke alarm which landed him a death sentence as it made the so-called crime pre-meditated.
Those who fight wars from portable buildings on the other side of the world will be disconnected. Times, Sunday Times
The building contractors wrote to us in February and we have applied for the electricity to be disconnected.
The film's structure is unusual - the story is presented as a series of narrated flashbacks that are often disconnected.
The electricity supply has been cut off/disconnected at the mains.
These are clues, but all are disconnected by their season of disuse.
An appellate judge who has been in that position since working as a professor is as disconnected from the legal practice as anyone who cannot claim "esquire" as a title. Real diversity on the Supreme Court.
It is difficult to look for connections among disconnected events, but to the extent that it can happen, it is likely to result in better solutions.
The site is introduced by a straightforward 50-second video that attempts to tie McCain to George Bush's tax record, set somewhat disconnectedly against soothing chamber music. Daily Digest: Capturing, Tagging, and Protecting the Vote
During this surgery, the inferior vena cava, the other large vein that returns deoxygenated blood to the heart from the lower half of the body, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery. Tricuspid Atresia
[Socrates] forces Gorgias to admit that such sophisticated language, disconnected from the roots of truth, in fact pursues some ulterior motives, that it invariably turns into an instrument of power, something it has been, by its very nature, right from the start. .... Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
She stepped back, of her own choice, and went from being immersed in something with me to being a disconnected observer.
Kennan barely managed acceptance to Princeton University but proved to be a good student, though a social misfit disconnected from the culture of the elite eating clubs. Uncontainable
He felt disconnected from his body, soaring into a haze of delirium.
The Lead Vocalist, who had just reconnected his vocal chords, disconnected them again.
I don't think my relatives, friends and colleagues are an uncommonly repressed or emotionally disconnected bunch. Times, Sunday Times
Cambodia and meet a USAF C-130 Refuel aircraft and make several (dry) contacts on the refueling hoses then to actually refuel from the C-130 and fly back to NKP, Thailand, On 14 June 1973 The Jolly Green was in the refueling formation with the C-130 and had just disconnected from the refueling hose when the helicopter rapidly pitched nose up then nose down, doing this several times. McLeod, David V. Jr.
What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs.
But it does serve as a reminder that the moral panic surrounding certain drugs is utterly disconnected from the reality of their objective dangers. Roll Reversal
The violations included exposed wiring, fire doors off their hinges and a disconnected smoke-alarm system.
Father and son disconnected the old stove then lugged it outdoors.
It felt as though it had been totally disconnected. Times, Sunday Times
But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people.
My mind was completely disconnected from what my body was doing.
Many have disconnected from their society as communities disintegrate, partly because few have the time to contribute to their local community and build local support systems.
In like manner, when the occasion for their use has passed, the raising of the boom will cause the nets to come alongside, when they can either be brailed up through the grummets or disconnected for future use. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
Sterne’s incontinuity of narration, the purposeful irrelation of parts, the use of anecdote and episode, which to the stumbling reader reduce his books to collections of disconnected essays and instances, gave to Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
Both are attempts to condemn the trackage by rail companies that claim they are disconnected from service and will never be used again.
‘Anyone who has been disconnected will be reconnected,’ he said.
The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.
She disconnected her computer and played games for a bit before finally going to sleep.
It made me vaguely nervous to see it there, so close, though in a disconnected type of way.
Shaun disconnected the last of the oxygen recycler hoses and began reattaching them to a portable oxygen recycling unit that he had modified to recirculate a chloral hydrate mix.
The media have documented a string of monstrous cases in which prosthetic breasts have been exposed and urostomy bags worn by bladder-cancer patients have been disconnected, with humiliating consequences. The TSA Is Keeping the Skies Safe
His article is a hodgepodge of disconnected observations and facts ripped out of context. Christianity Today
Although once you read the article you realize the title fits, since the piece is a bizarre collection of disconnected points and surfaces barely scratched. Cory Silverberg: How Sex Could Save Newspapers
The hope is that the public will re-engage with their increasingly disconnected military. Times, Sunday Times
The imagery and camerawork are almost painfully beautiful, while the disconnected narrative deliberately withholds closure.
An ankle strap will prevent the heel lever being released or the crampon being lost should it become disconnected from the boot.
He told the conference journalists are often ‘disconnected snobs and pompous know-alls who let the concerns of real people drop off the radar.’
As a result, we have become more disconnected to the healing foods that are provided through the different seasons. Times, Sunday Times
What looked like two scars were running down either side of Joe's back, forming a disconnected acute angle.
We could bring kids in from other countries to share their experiences in these big states in the Midwest, where there are a lot of young people who are totally disconnected.
Your gas might be disconnected or your washing machine repossessed. Say Goodbye to Debt
This disconnected person was not the Jeri they knew - what in the world was going on?
The mystery caller abruptly disconnected their conversation.
Eleven percent of households were disconnected for non-payment of bills.
That's not to say he is completely disconnected from rising energy costs. Times, Sunday Times
The body is never disconnected from the mind, and in that fact, she finds her drama.
With a click, Haley disconnected herself from the conversation.
So often our lives appear as a series of disconnected and disjointed dots and lines.
This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality. Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix
Only the husband remains unheard, for reasons which become obvious as the disconnected narrative evolves.
The occupant was evacuated while electrical engineers disconnected the power, allowing the firefighters to enter.
By introverting such a person, you make them willing do anything to gain acceptance and approval, even if such a punishment were to be to disconnected from their family forever. James Randi Educational Foundation
If the elements of the matrices are "disconnected", so that we can isolate certain sub-matrices sub-square, or sub-rectangles, in mathematical language, it is "block-diagonalizable". Archive 2005-10-01
While the Israeli and Palestinian territories are ever more disconnected from one another - whether walls of concrete, walls of hate, walls of psychosis incubated in the vacant lots of empty childhoods, or even literary festivals celebrating Israeli and Palestinian writers at the same time yet completely without acknowledgment of the other - we remain insistent on our island-like existence, instead of accepting we are each promontories and peninsulas. Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play
All national schools were disconnected from the Internet the following day, with some remaining offline until the end of the week.
It's easier, though, to remember a meaningful sentence or phrase of six words than to remember six disconnected words.
He disconnected the wire from the clock.
Whatever the spell had once been, now it was no more than hundreds of disconnected marks, fading into the dust. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Never attempt to clear blockages until power has been disconnected and watch your hands.
The batteries must be of the dry or gel, non-spillable, sealed type and they must be disconnected safely before it is loaded onto the aircraft. EasyJet taken to task over wheelchair policy
Sure, the conversation offered by a chatbot is rambling, disconnected, illogical, and unable to follow a topic for more than a sentence.
He disconnected the IV bottle from the overhead hook.
The one million households who are disconnected from their fixed telephone line must pay up to £75 to get reconnected.
It's natural… people don't usually enjoy feeling this disconnected unless they're willing participants.
Watching the hometown team remains one point of connection in an increasingly disconnected world, in a culture where no one seems to live where they were raised. Christianity Today
Along the foreshore was a series of disconnected posts, every second of which was armed with a Lewis gun. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)
Rich Ling, a sociologist working for Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunications company, has interviewed thousands of mobile-phone texters, and he has noticed that they actually feel more disconnected from the world around them.
I disconnected the current modem and plugged in the router to the phone line, and then moved onto plugging the network cable from the back of the router to the uplink port on the back of my switch.
Unlike other memory chips, flash does not lose the stored contents when the computer is disconnected from a power supply.
After you have safely wrapped all disconnected light-fixture wires, you can turn the electricity back on.
He seemed sort of almost scarily obsessed with things and sometimes really disconnected.
To me, such compositions suggest the multiple, disconnected motifs that you often find on an artist's sketchbook page.
You may be disconnected if you do not pay the bill.
Although such a study clearly runs the risk of feeling diffuse and disconnected, her work succeeds because she uses a similar heuristic with each war and each text.
The furious staff also disconnected ovens and blocked sinks with bags of waste, sources say. The Sun
The film portrays actuaries as mathematics-obsessed, socially disconnected individuals with bad comb-overs, according to the society, which is the largest professional body of actuaries worldwide, with more than 17,000 members.
Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures.
Your gas might be disconnected or your washing machine repossessed. Say Goodbye to Debt
Hundreds of thousands of customers have been disconnected for non-payment of bills, something that was illegal before privatisation.
So this week Dave has published another number to help readers who can't get through on the disconnected line.
Ford disconnected the telephone line and reactivated the radio link.
However, he said he believed the power supply had been disconnected when the alarms started to beep - a warning that the batteries needed to be replaced.
In some pulpits of our church, preaching continues to be irrelevant, disconnected and, yes, even boring.
Constantly guarding their rather distant borders of self, they become emotionally disconnected, often enduring the consequent loneliness for a lifetime.
I was hurriedly winding our grandfather clock when, in my carelessness, the pendulum disconnected.
His composition is now and then somewhat disconnected; the impressions are vague, almost illusory, and the mirage is a little obscure, but the intense and abiding charm of Nature remains. The French Immortals Series — Complete
In this disturbing comic story the narrator has become disconnected from his physical body and identity, observing his family as a ghost. The Times Literary Supplement
To test this we disconnected the wire between the frog and battery, and placed, instead of a vibrating sounder, a simple Morse key and a sounder taking the 'etheric' from armature. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Before calling in police, management disconnected electricity and water supplies to the factory and to the workers' hostels in an attempt to break the strike.
Yet all the horror seems a disgusting display of bravado, disconnected from the men themselves. Times, Sunday Times
The first task they were given was to scrub clean one of the barracks toilets and the pipe leading out of the wall which was disconnected from the septic tank.
They are disconnected from the previous generation and the one following. AUTHENTICITY: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life
The soldier disconnected a rifle into parts before cleaning it.
But one wondered at the overuse of casual brackets, the plethora of connected dots to shape disconnected thoughts.
These meetings occur in an environment of a divided and disconnected world that is facing significant policy dilemmas. Times, Sunday Times
Aside from my few half-baked ideas and disconnected observations, the car ride home with my wife was mostly quiet. Christianity Today
It felt as though it had been totally disconnected. Times, Sunday Times
Her brain sent panicked messages to her feet, but it was as though she were disconnected from her body.
News: ACII PC requires internet connection - Lose progress if disconnected. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
They stood out in his mind disconnectedly, like pictures with blackness all round them. Nineteen Eighty-four
I knew I should move, but it was as if my brain had been disconnected from my body; it could shout all it wanted, but my legs weren't going anywhere.
I immediately disconnected the autopilot and scanned the engine instruments.
Within a month of buying one, I disconnected my archaic home phone and took the cell everywhere.
The program goal is to provide the software tools and services that allow users to process, analyze and visualize large amounts of intelligence information from multiple, disconnected sources.
Yes - the number had been disconnected - oh dear!
Aside from my few half-baked ideas and disconnected observations, the car ride home with my wife was mostly quiet. Christianity Today
That's not to say he is completely disconnected from rising energy costs. Times, Sunday Times
Watching the hometown team remains one point of connection in an increasingly disconnected world, in a culture where no one seems to live where they were raised. Christianity Today
The warning followed incidents in London and the West Midlands where lines to ambulance stations were disconnected.
A multitude of disconnected images and ideas are launched at the viewer.
It seemed that she was disconnected from her body.
As a series of images flick by, she disconnectedly narrates the awakenings of her ostensibly conventional sexual and social consciousness.
The artwork seemed so disconnected from the world: it seemed to belong to another time. Times, Sunday Times
During this surgery, the superior vena cava, one of the two large veins attached to the heart to return deoxygenated or blue blood from the upper half of the body, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery. Tricuspid Atresia
His rear tire kicked upward, and his pedals spun disconnectedly. A New Diva-Tastic
Students milled around, offering a disconnected sense of safety.
Symptoms include feeling tearful, withdrawn and disconnected from the world. The Sun
He disconnected the television set before fixing it.
August 26, A.D. 2065, the Board, sitting in London, was informed by De Forest that the District of Northern Illinois had riotously cut itself out of all systems and would remain disconnected till the Board should take over and administer it direct. A Diversity of Creatures
As he continued his remarks, a few individuals rushed the stage and twice disconnected his microphone, forcing him to halt the speech.
If the state spreads itself too thinly across the disconnected and diffuse networks of personal identity, it will simply dissipate.
Your comment about Mrs Dalloway is brilliant; I might actually like to go to one of her parties – they seem very drifty and disconnected and like I might be able to stare off into space for a while without anyone complaining! The Office Party « Tales from the Reading Room
In future more hoaxers will find themselves in court or else having their mobiles and land-lines disconnected as a punishment for wasting police time.
The distinctive voice and gripping lyrics of German vocalist and producer Enik have been plugged through his recent vocal work on Funkstorung's album, Disconnected.
USELESS drivel from a tired, bitter and disconnected old man. wycliffe McCain: Obama was wrong on stimulus either then or now
But Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief. The Rapture by Liz Jensen: Book summary
Two freight cars disconnected from the train engine.
It is a sophisticated mobile phone pager which texts the owner if the car alarm is triggered, the battery is disconnected or an unauthorised attempt is made to start the engine.
In this case the young experimenters see that one of the little nails stays attracted when the battery is disconnected and understand that the magnetic effect somehow stays in the electromagnet.
I cannot bear to hear certain words and hearing them earlier made me feel strange and now i feel disconnected and bewildered.
She looked dropped into the scene from some other place, surreally disconnected like Dick Van Dyke dancing with the penguins.
The narrative of the book is also disconnected, with plenty of non sequiturs between chapters.
Last week's education speech had a similarly disconnected feel to it. Times, Sunday Times
Republican who was so disconnected with his brother's world and Illinois politics he was little more than a "scorekeeper" who kept tabs of donations. Chicagotribune.com -
His family life was even more disconnected, another family man with a rebellious teen-age daughter and alcoholic wife.
But technology in itself is also a risk if people become disconnected with nature. Smithsonian Mag
Mobile phone users now have only fifteen days, instead of thirty five, to clear overdue bills before they are disconnected.
While I am an avid space enthusiast, I agree with your point that much of space exploration seems disconnected from the rest of society here on earth. To All Of The Space-Not-So-Enthusiasts: « Tai-Chi Policy
The electricity supply has been cut off/disconnected at the mains.
But technology in itself is also a risk if people become disconnected with nature. Smithsonian Mag
Superficially these seem disconnected and doubtless traditional politicians and focus groups are puzzling over the underlying trends.
How can you have social mobility when what you earn is disconnected from how you can live? Times, Sunday Times
He made his money by inventing a pipe connector which allows radiators to be swivelled forward without being disconnected, making it easy to wallpaper behind them.
Through the dialer, users' modems are silently disconnected, then reconnected to the internet through an international long-distance number.
For a comedian, her intensity is almost humourless, like she's partially disconnected, operating on a slightly different plane.
He called for some pliers, disconnected the wire, and removed the fairing.
Aside from my few half-baked ideas and disconnected observations, the car ride home with my wife was mostly quiet. Christianity Today
They burn sage and copal in rituals that are disconnected from their origins—the drum circles take place in the shadows of the Metropolitan Cathedral. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Margaret's English spelling was atrocious, the handwriting not quite legible, sentences ungrammatical, disconnected or incomplete - a condition attributed to dyslexia or malfunctioning of the brain.
Half the time our electricity was disconnected and running water a luxury.
But they patched me through to a disconnected line.
It's easier, though, to remember a meaningful sentence or phrase of six words than to remember six disconnected words.
Noah disconnected the call and sighed, staring at the wrecked car that was being towed away.
Wedge-centrism is a type of conspiracy theory, where a critic uses "The Wedge" as the prism to make sense of disconnected facts. A Mystery for the Ages

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