Use of the word detract in a sentence example

detract

Last update: October 23, 2015

No amount of criticism can detract from her achievements. [verb]

New proposals for large hoardings will be resisted where they are considered to detract from the visual amenity of the area. [verb]

The new surface does not detract from the appearance of our stunning new designs ! [verb]

To keep from her beloved Queen everything that could detract from her beauty had been her last care. [verb]

Explanatory remarks do but detract from the ideas set forth. [verb]

Now, if we are equal in that which makes us men, how can the accidental distribution of secondary faculties detract from our manhood. [verb]

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. [verb]

That Thenardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he had saved Colonel Pontmercy. [verb]

She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture. [verb]

All this, it is true, detracted nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. [verb]

They were warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. [verb]

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