arm's length
Example Sentences
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Other sports leagues have kept prediction markets at arms length.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over arms length behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
An early assumption the artist would keep him at arms length, being protective of his image, turned out to be the opposite, he explained.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2023
Others have held it at arms length, treating it as an instance of the paranoid style in American politics.
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
She held me at arms length, her eyes serious.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
