wide berth
Example Sentences
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Native Americans more or less cohabited peaceably with the grizzlies, each usually giving the other wide berth, at a mid-19th century ratio of about 10,000 California grizzlies to 130,000 native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If I wanted to invest in emerging markets right now, I’d buy small amounts of several of those and give the indexes and broad emerging-markets funds a wide berth.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
So, like many a Premier League midfielder in the 90s, he decided to give Roy Keane a wide berth, instead using existing material for his research.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Yet there is one banner day on the American calendar that I have always given a wide berth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
People step aside, giving him a wide berth.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
