What is "disengage"

Usage examples of "disengage".

She was half asleep when, a minute or so later, he disengaged from her, got up to extinguish the candles, and then lay down at her side, pulled the bedcovers up over their damp bodies, and slid one arm beneath her head.

The belief that such monological models can explain them is the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm in all its inadequate aspects, is everything bad about the disengaged and hovering Cartesian ego.

She disengaged Daniel from the second cradleboard and handed him to Hannah.

He heard the light hammerblows of the outer airlock dogs disengaging: Woetjans was bringing her riggers inside.

The Errin hastily disengaged their hips and reconnected after he had cushioned her fall in his arms.

I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.

But, now that my honour is disengaged, and my fortune rendered independent, by the last will of a worthy nobleman, whose friendship I was favoured with in France, I presume to lay myself at the feet of the adorable Monimia, as the most faithful of admirers, whose happiness or misery wholly depends upon her nod.

He puts his mouth to her shoulder, exposes teeth to bite, and then disengages, feeling even through the narcotherapy of sex her fingernails come more severely into his cheekbones.

Mongrel, hissing with satisfaction at last, disengaged the crumpled sailship and allowed it to slide free.

The Tiger kept trying to disengage, bucking and humping backward, both tanks howled.

Since our goal would essentially be to remove Saddam and then disengage, we would have no reason to try to provide security or stability for all Iraqis and so would not need a large troop presence or a lengthy one.

Rupakaya, its embodiment or embeddedness in the entire world of Form, and these merely dissociated and disengaged aspects of Enlightenment thought have to be teased apart from its true intuitions.

The position was carried with a rush, and many of the Boers bayoneted before they could disengage themselves from the tarpaulins which covered them.

The boilers were not out, but since they had been disengaged from the drive shafts, there was a sudden cessation of the steady rhythmic vibration that the engines had sent through the ship.

She had no hesitation in picking up the dead rabbit and the trap, and when, disengaging her skirt from the brambles, she turned to the child to see him sitting in the middle of the grass drive, his feet straight out, his hands tucked under his buttocks, she was not to know that this was the characteristic attitude of Joe whenever he knew he was going to get his backside smacked for some mischief.