Sentence examples similar to detached settlements from inspiring English sources

Would they notice Mabey, with his binoculars and his notebook, as he investigated pre-traumatic urban-edge market gardens, motorway-detached settlements waiting for longer runways and bigger air terminals?

A third of the population of Belo Horizonte live in apartments (in high rise buildings), 9 % of the city's inhabitants live in favelas (irregular settlements), with the remainder mainly living in semi-detached or detached houses (IBGE 2010).

During the early years of settlement the naval defence of Australia was provided by detached Royal Navy units of the East Indies Station, based in Sydney.

Economists remain detached.

The Chinese remain detached.

(Xu Ping's neighbor deftly detached it).

He's detached and footloose.

"She was so detached," Renetta said.

There is a two-car detached garage.

He is agreeable, ironic, a little detached.

He seemed to be pretty detached.