separate from
Frequency: 9.025.0 per million words
Used to indicate the person, group, or thing that something is being moved away from.
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Examples (10)
- The boys are separated from the girls.
- She is currently separated from her husband.
- Slave parents were forcibly separated from their children.
- He had recently separated from his wife before moving abroad.
- The waste water is kept entirely separate from the rainwater.
- This island resort is totally separated from the mainland.
- She leads a lifestyle which is quite separate from that of her parents.
- It is often hard to separate the truth from the lies in politics.
- The machine separates the cream from the milk automatically.
- It is important to keep your personal life separate from your work.