Sentence examples for attempting to separate from inspiring English sources

I also knew I wanted to write about a group of people attempting to separate themselves, to a certain extent, from mainstream culture.

As he put it, distilling the essence of Roy Cohn was like "attempting to separate the facets that make a diamond sparkle".

Maestracci's lawyers argue the IAC is nothing more than a shell company and that attempting to separate it from the gallery is a figleaf.

Jocelyn Bioh's "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" (an MCC Theatre production, at the Lucille Lortel) has so many fabulous moments drawn from cruelty and vengeance that attempting to separate the humor from the emotional barbarism would be like trying to peel a kernel of corn: you could do it, but it would take too long, and to what purpose?

What our position is here, as it would be in circumstances where we're giving support to a Labour administration, would be that we would not support a Labour administration that was in hoc to the SNP and was fulfilling its role of attempting to separate Scotland from the rest of the UK.

Scientists have observed raven couples with the highest social status attacking and attempting to separate less established couples, Discover reports.

The riot police attempted to separate the crowds.

My mother attempted to separate herself from her parents and siblings by being "nice," which they weren't.

During the 1970s Banabans attempted to separate from the Gilbert Islands, which was nearing independence as part of Kiribati.

The draft riots followed years of politicians' and middle-class reformers' attempts to separate the two groups.

Here we attempt to separate fact from fiction.