"distance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A polite distance away, two servants, a man and a woman, waited patiently.
- He came up the steps to be near me, but kept a polite distance.
- People kept a polite distance, occasionally sending free drinks to her.
- I got a chair and moved it up to a polite distance, and sat.
- The robots remained at a polite distance, but their presence was a constantly felt threat.
- He seems disappointed, she thought, but he's maintaining a polite distance.
- Finally, I managed to sit down facing the pair of them, but a polite distance away.
- Mostly she keeps a polite middle distance from the Matthaeis.
- Jack faded back, taking up a position on the front fender of a car a polite distance away.
- Not at a polite distance, as he now expected, but mere inches from his own.
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