distanced

past tense of distance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for distanced
Verb
  • Padres left fielder Jase Bowen retreated to the ivy and made a leaping catch.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2026
  • Armand gives a recap of the events leading up to and following the Trial of season two, saying that Lestat retreated to Magnus’s tower for the latter half of the 20th century, and never reached out to Louis to expose the truth about Armand orchestrating Claudia’s murder.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • The argument grew feverish; Tejas picked up his folding chair and flung it, legs first, across the driveway, onto Hema Rao's lawn.
    Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The bio-andy was flung off its feet, the light armor turning rigid.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • By 2024 the bill had receded, to around €427 billion.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Confronted by a stubborn Mexican defense, the Koreans receded into a zigzag of impressive but somewhat fruitless passing.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Damaged or bruised portions of fruits and vegetables should be cut away, or the produce should be discarded, and produce should generally be refrigerated within two hours of purchase, per MCHD.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Officials said activities connected to people ‒ from fireworks to carelessly discarded cigarettes ‒ have sparked 75% of wildfires in Utah in 2026.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Doing business downtown has come with a level of uncertainty for the past six years, as the pandemic dispelled the usual foot traffic and downtown employers and workers negotiated hybrid work.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
  • Those changes came at full-back and in midfield, two areas of concern for this Brazil team that were not dispelled by the 1-1 draw against Morocco.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • The penalties vary based on factors such as how much trash was dumped and the type of offense.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
  • The public has voted for its two favorite dumped Casa Islanders to return to the villa — at which point Amora and Carl leap out of giant prop cakes on either side of the stage.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • After October 7th, thousands were rounded up, bused to Ramallah, and dispersed across West Bank cities.
    Nirit Peled, New Yorker, 26 June 2026
  • This only works when authorization, validation, business rules and state-transition controls are enforced at the service boundary, instead of being dispersed across user interfaces or deferred to downstream systems.
    Slavik Zorin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Just as my outfit choices become breezier in the soupy months of summer, my makeup routine sheds some layers, too.
    Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 25 June 2026
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“Distanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distanced. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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