Example sentences for: distancing

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

  • Chambers developed increasing reservations in his later years about the direction the American right was taking, distancing himself first from Joe McCarthy, then from Richard Nixon, and even from William Buckley Jr.'s National Review . But Chambers' importance lies, finally, not in his politics but in his romantic penchant for the extremes of the psychic and political undergrounds.

  • Robert Novak ( Capital Gang ) reports the consensus view that McCurry, like Vernon Jordan, is distancing himself from Clinton.

  • For your own emotional well-being, know that the worst case scenario may involve distancing yourself if she will not acknowledge her problem.

  • a portentousness in the silence that's distancing and annoying, especially since it leads to a too perfectly ironic ending."

  • He lingered on it, slowed it down, fastened on blood-spurting bodies as they hurtled through the air--and ended up making it lyrical, aestheticizing it, distancing it.


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