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arm's length

NOUN
  1. a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy

How To Use arm's length In A Sentence

  • We quietly filed in, formed rows and stood an arm's length apart.
  • After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
  • Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships.
  • Ain't this been a gee-whizzer of a storm?" queried the oil man, holding the two Aleuts at arm's length. On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
  • She had always kept his family at arm's length.
  • The skivvies from the Cabinet Office come in, all lah-di-dah and arm's length. ‘How many of you ponces voted New Labour yesterday?’
  • I always had the feeling she was keeping me at arm's length.
  • Keeping people at arm's length was my speciality.
  • A black vulture rose up out of the depths on widespread pinions and floated past them almost within arm's length, turning its gruesome naked head of pink lappeted skin to stare at them with inscrutable black eyes before sailing away. The Seventh Scroll
  • Always light them at arm's length using a taper.
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