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
The Moon will appear to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length," Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP.
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
He backed up and held me at arm’s length.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
