How To Use At arm's length In A Sentence
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Bruce holds the Nikonos at arm's length to snap his own picture while feeding an argus fish.
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In these eight chapters we are shown that Bristol and its hinterland existed as two solitudes - wary of one another and keeping each other at arm's length.
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I can't get my camera and myself lined up without touching the reef, so hold the camera at arm's length and shoot blind with everything on automatic, hoping to capture a remora cleaning a shark's gills.
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They got it and that allowed them to focus on keeping us at arm's length.
The Sun
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He struck a match, and held it at arm's length flickering and guttering, trying to illuminate the space he was in.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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Emma McChesney drew from the rack a skirt of king's blue satin messaline and held it at arm's length.
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I always had the feeling she was keeping me at arm's length.
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He has to hold newspapers at arm's length to focus on the print.
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The displacements have decreased to less than 0.5°, the width of the lunar and solar discs - less than the width of the little finger held at arm's length.
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He has to hold newspapers at arm's length to focus on the print.
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He held the dirty rag at arm's length .
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After all, much of his mystique came from keeping his peers at arm's length.
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He struck a match, and held it at arm's length.
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Start with the dumbbells at arm's length above your chest and lower them in a wide arc out to your sides until you feel a stretch in your chest.
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Not being terribly bendy today I had to resort to stooping and holding the camera at arm's length, pointing hopefully at the little blooms, relying on instinct to achieve an adequate framing.
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Although there's an element of feral sensuality in Davalos' portrayal, the film wisely keeps any potential sexual energy between her and Diesel at arm's length.
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Debbie led a frugal life so she could send a large part of her salary to her family and kept male admirers at arm's length.
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In that case, keep your pal at arm's length - only hang with her at school or your house.
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Why should not directors and shareholders dealing with each other in relation to the latter's shares be treated as operating at arm's length?
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They were not always best kept at arm's length.
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Shot by ace photographer Dabboo Ramani, the ad shows Devang holding a chicken drumstick at arm's length.
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It was going to be dicey - keeping Francine at arm's length without ruining either her or Brunner's feathers.
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Petra keeps all men at arm's length to avoid getting hurt.
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They were not always best kept at arm's length.
Times, Sunday Times
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Economic policies kept the Soviet Union and Japan at arm's length during the Cold War.
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Supposedly polarizing figures, such as documentarian Michael Moore who had produced the anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9-11," were kept at arm's length.
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He held the dirty rag at arm's length .
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Much more important, there is no way that the movement can keep the political arena at arm's length.
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Economic policies kept the Soviet Union and Japan at arm's length during the Cold War.
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keep someone at arm's length
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He has to hold newspapers at arm's length to focus on the print.
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Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships.
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Ain't this been a gee-whizzer of a storm?" queried the oil man, holding the two Aleuts at arm's length.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
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She had always kept his family at arm's length.
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I always had the feeling she was keeping me at arm's length.
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Keeping people at arm's length was my speciality.
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Always light them at arm's length using a taper.
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He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
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They were not always best kept at arm's length.
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One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might.
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Sponge does not actively mislead Maxwell, the parties are dealing at arm's length and are not, for example, in a fiduciary relationship where disclosure would be necessary.
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Contacts conducted at arm's length for five years should suddenly turn into such an ostentatious embrace.
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If they have sinned and gone astray, the bishop should still be their father in Christ; he should not deal with them at arm's length, as if he were their prosecutor.
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Eaher abruptly turned to the offensive, stepping in with a lunge at Tahr's shoulder, sword at arm's length.
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Petra keeps all men at arm's length to avoid getting hurt.
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After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
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He keeps all his clients at arm's length.
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Mediæval kings may have been surrounded by importunate projectors and alchemists, but they mostly kept them at arm's length.
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I held it at arm's length.
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They got it and that allowed them to focus on keeping us at arm's length.
The Sun
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He struck a match, and held it at arm's length flickering and guttering, trying to illuminate the space he was in.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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They got it and that allowed them to focus on keeping us at arm's length.
The Sun
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For all their charms, Mamet's early films had a stagy, mannered quality that kept the viewer at arm's length.
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He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length.
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He knows how to work with a composer he described as "hermetic, private and living in the extreme remoteness of the Orkney Islands, where you can't easily get hold of him, so it all has to happen rather at arm's length.
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Or the populist in him -- the former mayor who unsnarled Taipei's traffic and cleaned up its sewers -- might choose to keep China at arm's length, blocking direct trade and transport links with the mainland in a bid to keep factories and jobs at home.
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Sensing she was being watched, she spun round to face the doorway, the Beretta gripped tightly at arm's length.
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His proclamation? "he added as with a kind of exultant war-cry he drew a roll of paper from his pocket and held it out at arm's length above his head," his proclamation?
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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He was half-way under the railing when she caught him up and held him at arm's length while he howled and barked and slavered.
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