keep aloof
Example Sentences
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“We try to keep aloof from it all.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2019
The bracelets, according to Wonder Woman’s prose, were “fashioned by our captors” as physical symbols that “we must always keep aloof from men.”
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
Kali’s and Janaki’s children were much older, and as for Kunthi, she preferred to keep aloof.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
We have no men trained for colonial life, and we never shall have, so long as our better class keep aloof from politics.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Thad certainly did not want to strike up a conversation with so morose a man; and especially when his chum wished to keep aloof from him.
From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Herbert Carter
