How to Use at arm's length in a Sentence

at arm's length

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• That's the width of a little finger held at arm's length.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• That's close — the width of a little finger held at arm's length.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• For scale, your three middle fingers held at arm's length span about five degrees of sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
• Kansas kept Baylor at arm's length for most of the second half.
  — David Smale, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• To perform pencil push-ups, hold a pencil between the eyes at arm's length.
  — Laura Schober, Health, 12 Feb. 2025
• Most entrepreneurs try to keep them at arm's length, valuing their money more than their advice.
  — Mark Gimein, The Week, 29 Nov. 2022
• That's about the size of a postage stamp held at arm's length, and is a fair bit bigger than the full Moon on the sky.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2010
• To estimate 10 degrees in the sky, use the width of your clenched first held at arm's length.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• Robinson hit a trio of big baskets in the fourth quarter that kept the Hornets at arm's length.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2021
• For scale, the tip of your little finger held at arm's length accounts for roughly 1 degree of sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• For context, the width of the tip of your little finger accounts for one degree when held at arm's length against the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• For context, the width of your three middle fingers held at arm's length accounts for 5 degrees in the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2026
• Remember, the width of your fist held at arm's length accounts for roughly 10 degrees of night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Remember, 10 degrees is the equivalent to the width of your fist held at arm's length against the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2025
• Remember, the width of your three middle fingers held at arm's length spans roughly 5 degrees in the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
• Remember, the span of your clenched fist when held at arm's length against the night sky accounts for roughly 10 degrees.
  — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• From Orion's vantage point, the moon will appear roughly the size of a basketball held at arm's length.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• With that cushion, the Heat were able to keep the Bucks at arm's length until their flurry in the final seconds.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2020
• Remember, the width of your middle three fingers held at arm's length accounts for roughly 5 degrees in the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• She is still weighed down by the grief of losing her father, so her primary tactic is to hold everyone but her sister at arm's length.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Kentucky kept their Buckeye counterparts at arm's length the rest of the way, never letting the lead get smaller than nine.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2023
• The blooming view is nominal with the small shifts in focus a lens makes for handheld clips at arm's length or present-to-camera recordings from a tripod.
  — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
• The second-year forward drew a foul on Gobert and his scoring play kept the Jazz at arm's length over the final two minutes.
  — John Coon, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• Remember, the width of your little finger held at arm's length is approximately 1 degree in the night sky.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• That tiny region of the sky - easily blocked by a grain of sand held at arm's length - contains thousands of galaxies, each a sprawling city of billions of stars.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2012
• The second problem was that the insurance contracts must be negotiated at arm's length to be valid for tax purposes.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• The Fever guard erupted for a game-high 27 points, burying big shot after big shot to keep Las Vegas at arm's length.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
• The entire powertrain is mounted on a subframe, and hydraulically damped engine mounts keep noise and vibration at arm's length.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2023
• The Red Raiders used 3-point shooting and stellar rebounding to keep the Zips at arm's length — but not much further than that.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
• After the first half, Butler generally kept DePaul at arm's length.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023