wide berth
Example Sentences
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Native Americans more or less cohabited peaceably with the grizzlies, each usually giving the other wide berth, at a mid-19th century ratio of about 10,000 California grizzlies to 130,000 native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The 1951 pact grants the US a wide berth to expand its military operations in Greenland.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
If I wanted to invest in emerging markets right now, I’d buy small amounts of several of those and give the indexes and broad emerging-markets funds a wide berth.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
Producers then took a wide berth around the region—until Comstock showed up with new technology, data and Jones’s blessing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
“I thought you lived in that girls’ bathroom?” said Harry, who had been careful to give the place a wide berth for some years now.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
