arm's length
Example Sentences
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Other sports leagues have kept prediction markets at arms length.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over arms length behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
In a letter to Mr Bates in 2010, Sir Ed said the government had an "arms length relationship" with the Post Office, so it had "the commercial freedom to run its business operations without interference".
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024
Others have held it at arms length, treating it as an instance of the paranoid style in American politics.
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
I walked over, and she held me out at arms length, an expression equal parts sadness and acceptance working across her dark features.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
