Example Sentences

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Chappelle has been hosting a series of standups shows amid the COVID-19 pandemic called “Dave Chappelle & Friends: An Intimate Socially Distanced Affair,” otherwise nicknamed “Chappelle’s Summer Camp.”

From Fox News • Aug. 9, 2020

“President Obama and Vice President Biden: A Socially Distanced Conversation,” at just over 15 minutes, did not break the internet, or even dent it.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2020

Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.

From Time Magazine Archive

Distanced, but more alert, or am I imagining it?

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood