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Example sentences for: distancing

How can you use “distancing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

a portentousness in the silence that's distancing and annoying, especially since it leads to a too perfectly ironic ending."
According to Nickels, who was distancing himself from the group by this time, "Atta was just too strange."
They should "pull a Sister Souljah," loudly distancing themselves from a cultural figure on the far right, and start oozing compassion (one way to do this: "heartwarming stories about children with fatal diseases").
I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.
When RN ran into every kind of problem after June of 1972, most of which were unearned and a chunk of which was earned, my father never thought of disavowing him or even distancing himself from Nixon.