How to Use uncouple in a Sentence

uncouple

verb
Definition of uncouplenext
Synonyms for uncouplenext
  • Crew members were told to uncouple the engine, baggage and mail cars from the rest of the train.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2021
  • This week, it will be fully uncoupled from the civic realm, sold off to the highest bidder.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
  • According to a 2009 Science study, the cramped form uncouples the jockey’s movements from that of their steed and keeps the rider steady.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
  • Early on, some attempted to uncouple the anthem from the game.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Goop.com has taught us how to detox properly, how to edit our wardrobes, the best places to travel and how to consciously uncouple.
    — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Oct. 2014
  • After the crash, the lead car of the train, which derailed slightly, was uncoupled from the other cars and will remain on the scene for investigators to assess.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • By releasing its guidance before the data used to justify it, the CDC didn't so much put the cart before the horse as uncouple them entirely.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 30 July 2021
  • The past few years look like the kind of crazy uncoupling that happens every couple of decades, not a structural downshift from the world's most competitive market to a network of cartels.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 July 2019
  • These people had crowded into, and on the top of, a few straggling passenger cars that lay uncoupled along the track, in seeming expectation that some one was to come, in due time, and take them off.
    — al, 5 June 2020
  • At one point, Paltrow reportedly wanted to step in and help the warring pair to consciously uncouple.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2017
  • An attempt to uncouple the engine and car containing a safe and valuables was unsuccessful amid the shootout, and the robbers fled instead with some jewelry and cash.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The great @michaelsheen & I consciously uncoupled over Christmas.
    — Nick Maslow, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • After that consciously uncoupling business, she is now engaged to a behind-the-scenes mogul, TV producer Brad Falchuk.
    — Karen Helle, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • The science uncoupling the effects of fasting and calorie restriction on aging is in its infancy.
    — William Mair, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In an era in which body-positivity activists have been working hard to help women uncouple their sense of self-worth from the numbers on a scale, that’s one controversial plot.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Besides being able to shift up or down using the paddles, drivers will be able to uncouple the transmission altogether by pulling on both paddles at once.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • The two trade fairs consciously uncoupled back in June, meaning companies are no longer required to book stands at both conferences and the two weeks will grow differently.
    — Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
  • My roommates, a couple probably/hopefully in the process of uncoupling, spend most of their free hours adding to the noise levels by playing the sort of music that is like a prolonged moan, or maybe a whale dying, while yelling at each other.
    — Greta Moran, The Cut, 29 Mar. 2018
  • That is part of the appeal, for some, to make sports an obtuse distraction from reality, but any suggestion that sports used to be uncoupled from culture and politics is myth.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The railroad commissioner agreed with the railroad that regularly uncoupling trains for that purpose is less than ideal.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2018
  • Not all observers familiar with the military legal system want to uncouple it from discipline.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Forsyth County officials officially opened the new Fire Station 8 serving the northeast part of the county with a hose-uncoupling ceremony on Friday.
    — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 27 Apr. 2017
  • No, Scarlett Johansson and Jane Fonda aren’t uncoupling from each other, but from each one’s latest significant others.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • All these factors, plus a springtime flocking into the outdoors, especially in the northern U.S., could help blunt a potential wave’s peak; some may even help uncouple a rise in infections from a secondary surge in hospitalizations and deaths.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • With their energy focused on Biden's agenda, Democrats backed down from a showdown over the debt limit in the government funding bill, deciding to uncouple the borrowing ceiling at the insistence of Republicans.
    — Kevin Freking, ajc, 1 Oct. 2021
  • With their energy focused on Biden’s agenda, Democrats backed down from a showdown over the debt limit in the government funding bill, deciding to uncouple the borrowing ceiling at the insistence of Republicans.
    — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Either way, the killer bees remained aggressive toward the mites but not toward humans, and by sequencing the honeybee genome, the research team showed that natural selection in Puerto Rico had uncoupled the two behaviors.
    — Kastalia Medrano, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The legislation affecting wealthy Marylanders uncouples the state from federal estate-tax rules.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • First, a big part of the complexity during the migration process is that each enterprise needs to determine the various technologies and applications operating in their data lake, and then figure out how to uncouple them and migrate them.
    — Chetan Mathur, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • After consciously uncoupling from Brad Pitt, newly single Angelina Jolie has never looked better.
    — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2017

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