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at arm's length

ADVERB
  1. at some distance
    keep someone at arm's length

How To Use at arm's length In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • I always had the feeling she was keeping me at arm's length.
  • Keeping people at arm's length was my speciality.
  • Always light them at arm's length using a taper.
  • He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
  • They were not always best kept at arm's length. Times, Sunday Times
  • One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might.
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