give wide berth to
Example Sentences
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The best inoculation from these temptations of the deep — which take many a varied form — is to recruit only the most trustworthy of crew and give wide berth to the merfolk.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023
At all times we give wide berth to the cliff dwellings of the ancient Anasazi, who spook me as much as they do the ghost-fearing Navajo.
From New York Times • May 14, 2012
A college student who used to eat Danish pastries on the way to school has changed her route to give wide berth to the bakery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the great black carnivorous water-beetle, with all its strength and fighting equipment, was careful to give wide berth to that dreadful, quick-darting mask.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
