Sentence example with the word 'detract'

detract

abate, beguile, deduct, detract from, divert, erode, leach, refine, shorten, take away from, wear away

Definition v. take away a part from

Last update: October 23, 2015


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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