disembodied

Example Sentences

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By the end of the book, the reader appreciates even better how misleading it is to think of cellphone calls and the internet as a whole as occurring in an abstract elsewhere, a disembodied cyberspace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

First comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: "Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor."

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy,” says the disembodied voice.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

The single “Light Sleeper” arrived with a music video boasting a floating disembodied head arriving about halfway through, creating a visual that had no aesthetic father in the culture at that point.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

He had never spoken to Leon on the telephone before and the disembodied voice at the other end of the line had caught him off balance.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier