distance

Example Sentences

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Coral tried to distance itself from Eyyub’s trading to protect its access to European banks and insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal

Family and friends would come from great distances and stay for days.

From Literature

We were some distance away from the city, but I could feel the warmth of that great fire on my face as I watched.

From Literature

While the stories have connections to what is happening in the real world today, the science-fiction context provides just enough distance from reality to make any underlying moral lessons palatable.

From The Wall Street Journal

The senator from Oklahoma also distanced himself from remarks he made at the time in which he called one of the Americans slain in Minneapolis a "deranged individual."

From Barron's