keep aloof
Example Sentences
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“We try to keep aloof from it all.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2019
The bracelets, according to Wonder Woman’s prose, were “fashioned by our captors” as physical symbols that “we must always keep aloof from men.”
From Washington Post • May 26, 2017
Kali’s and Janaki’s children were much older, and as for Kunthi, she preferred to keep aloof.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
I often pity a girl with money, for the most sensitive and the most noble keep aloof.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
But though I may be a prig, I can yet try to understand and not to keep aloof; and though they may be—well, they can improve their roads too.
From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
