Example Sentences

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The company is following local mandates on safety protocols but will distance anyone who asks.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021

So my sense is they are preemptively distancing themselves … which of course is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because my sister will distance herself.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2021

Latz is based in Georgia, where relaxed stay-at-home orders and open restaurants mean that individuals are left to make a lot of choices for themselves about how much they will distance.

From Slate • May 7, 2020

We say of most tragedies that enough time will distance us.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2016

For the savage will, distance is practically non-existent, his intense desire feels itself as non-spatial.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)