give a wide berth
Example Sentences
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It’s also home to elk, which you should give a wide berth if you’re lucky enough to see one.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025
In medical devices, things are murkier—in encouraging innovation, the legal standards give a wide berth to people trying to develop technologies, with the understanding that sometimes even people trying their best will screw up.
From Slate • May 26, 2023
Then there was Universal's "Everest," which opted to give a wide berth to gangster rats and futuristic teens by opening in a special, Imax and premium format run.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2015
The menace of the man is still pronounced; his glowering presence is something you'd give a wide berth to on the night bus.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2010
Indeed he believes most things, and only mistrusts shoals and lee shores, to which he never fails to give a wide berth.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.
