arm's length

Example Sentences

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Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over an arm’s length behind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Disney isn’t the only partner OpenAI is now holding at a robotic arm’s length.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Quangos - or arm's length bodies - are organisations such as regulators, cultural institutions and advisory bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not directly controlled from Whitehall.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

What’s going on, what makes him keep me at arm’s length one minute and rush back to my side the next?

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank