draw apart
Example Sentences
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As with Jeeves, I struggle when I try to draw apart the strands of the enormous, tangled Jack Reacher knot in my memory.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020
A couple’s lips brush slowly for a kiss, then draw apart.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012
That forenoon King shook hands with Archie, Teddy, Gratton, and the rest, made his formal bows to Gloria's girl friends, and felt relief when the inept banalities languished and he was free to draw apart.
From The Everlasting Whisper by Gregory, Jackson
That sounded very bad; Mr. G. looked serious; some disposition shown on Treasury Bench to draw apart from Bryce.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
I watched the man closely, and soon saw him draw apart from the others and become sulky.
From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
