- present participle of detract.
detracting
Example Sentences
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Mr. Gallo’s design for this is evocative, but a backdrop depicting a cityscape looms behind it, detracting from the play’s intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
But regardless of how that comeback ends, Vonn isn’t worried about it detracting from what she’s already accomplished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Stephen Sackur speaks to actor and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr on whether the focus on a ‘good death’ is detracting from the right to a good life?
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
Red-carpet premieres were mostly without movie stars, detracting from some of the buzz that the largest film festival in North American typically generates.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Without detracting from it there is also a world of beauty in an amazing river, always arriving, always departing; its banks wondrously deeply colored with green and gold.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
