attachments

Example Sentences

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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

They generate strong "red" signals that prevent chromosomes from making incorrect early attachments.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Or maybe you are looking for the excitement of a big city where English is widely spoken, have no family attachments and enjoy seasonal weather.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025

Simply put, Washington had developed a view of both personal and national independence that was completely immune to sentimental attachments or fleeting ideological enthusiasms.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis