Sentences with detract
de·tract
D d - The publicity could detract from our election campaign. [VERB + from]
- Her anger detracts from her beauty
- detract from what sets itself up as a reasonably swish sort of place.
- Ten's focus on the drama of footy can detract from its coverage of the game.
- Frowning detracts from her beauty
- To detract another's attention from more important issues.
- But did it restrict the imaginative reach or detract from the factual accuracy of his prose?
- Not to detract from any of the others, Samson and Delilah was the Australian film that impressed me most this year.
- The dilapidated barn detracts charm from the landscape.
- The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
- Detract is sometimes wrongly used where distract is meant: a noise distracted (not detracted) my attention