How to Use above the fray in a Sentence

above the fray

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• For most of the race, Hunter tried to stay above the fray.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• The dollar remains firmly on its pedestal, well above the fray.
  — Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Publicly, Nixon ran a smart campaign, seeming to stay above the fray.
  — Ted Widmer, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• As Rocky did at first with Lang, DeSantis has tried to remain above the fray.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
• Golf likes to hold itself up as a game of high integrity and morals, somehow above the fray.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2022
• Even assets that can fly can’t always keep above the fray of a fragmenting world.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• But even if his sector is demanding, Huang is trying to stay above the fray.
  — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• As Warnock tried to stay above the fray, Walker’s campaign careened through a series of scandals.
  — Shannon McCaffrey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2022
• Even so, Zelensky managed to stay somewhat above the fray.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• The third candidate onstage, physician Duane Wooten, largely stayed above the fray.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024
• But Medvedev, 25 and with just one major title to his name, also has the luxury of remaining above the fray.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Aside from a few gymnastics, swimming, and track events, few competitions were able to move above the fray.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2021
• As the song wraps, a woman’s voice rises above the fray, an angry mob surrounding the rapper, hands banging on the Bentley.
  — John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
• And, even more impressive in a country where the political red/blue divide seems omnipresent, the NFL seems to float above the fray.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• But while the other hopefuls battled for second-place Wu, the front-runner, stayed more or less above the fray, taking little fire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Schiff went into the debate attempting to stay above the fray and avoid attacks from the candidates scrambling for second place.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Meditation gets you to listen to the noise, observe the onslaught without judgement, hold yourself above the fray.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• Always stay above the fray during board elections — keep your opinions to yourself about who is (or would be) good or bad directors.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• Always stay above the fray during board elections – keep to yourself your opinions about who is (or would be) good or bad directors.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
• For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• But this is also the type of project that manages to lift itself up above the fray by sheer will and chops, not to mention its determination to scratch a throwback-genre itch.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• While space activities might seem literally above the fray, that’s not truly the case.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 4 Mar. 2022
• Part of his appeal was seeming to be above the fray, not entirely aligned with this or that party, but a person who was called to serve, who served in the public interest.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• In his speech on Thursday, the President needs to stay above the fray and make clear that his comments are not about partisan gain but repairing the democracy.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• Bass has attempted to stay above the fray, mostly avoiding direct conflict with other politicians — at least in public.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Netflix, in its history, has cast itself as above the fray on legacy media transactions.
  — Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
• Many nonfiction films of earlier eras sought a spot above the fray, but that thinking has changed.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Dec. 2025
• Heroes capable of flying can stay above the fray by hitting the jump button twice.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
• Fan favorites don’t often win, but Windey stayed above the fray just long enough to cross the finish line without breaking a sweat.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025