draw apart

Example Sentences

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As with Jeeves, I struggle when I try to draw apart the strands of the enormous, tangled Jack Reacher knot in my memory.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020

A couple’s lips brush slowly for a kiss, then draw apart.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

But the plea which seemed to give her the right to cling the closer made the man to draw apart.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

But, as the men moved forward,--the road swinging more toward the center of the gorge,--the cliffs seemed to draw apart, and, through the way thus opened, they saw the great canyon and the mountains beyond.

From The Eyes of the World by Wright, Harold Bell

In these days he read much in the little Testament 256 whenever there was a rest by the wayside, and he could draw apart from the others.

From The Search by Hill, Grace Livingston