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Meanings of aloof in английском

Remote in manner.

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Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation.

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Examples for "distant"
Examples for "distant"
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It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
Iron Council
2
Hopefully there'll be some good news in the not too distant future.
The Guardian
3
Avery said simply, 'I saw him fall.' The tawny eyes were distant.
Second to None
4
I appear where I am most needed, yet in hope most distant.
Forge of Darkness
5
We must continue our acquaintance sometime in the not too distant future.
Blameless
1
Wow, Nasdaq found the only way possible to upstage the Facebook IPO.
The Guardian
2
Thus dressed he goes upstage right to where Martin keeps the entrance.
Sympathy for the devil
3
To left upstage in a corner a small card table with chairs.
Moral
4
Jasper blurred in her vision as she took a light run upstage.
Shadow fall
5
It seemed like a deliberate attempt to upstage the highly publicized meeting.
Somewhere inside
Usage of aloof in английском
1
However, someone who's perhaps slightly aloof will be more approachable after today!
The South African
2
It is also somewhat aloof-onebloom per stem, one stem per plant.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
3
The Party leader, aloof and amused, gave Young the signal to begin.
The God That Failed
4
In Peloponnesus, the powerful city of Argos and the Achaeans stood aloof.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
5
Meanwhile, Canney's idea of Moss as aloof from English art has stuck.
The Guardian
6
I feel like I did during orientation week-anxious ,outof place, aloof.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
7
Yet the theatre in England remains almost entirely aloof from real life.
Our Stage and Its Critics / By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gaze...
8
Perhaps the Days saw themselves as enlightened, standing aloof from that paradox.
Wizardborn
9
However, someone rather aloof and enigmatic is likely to catch your eye.
The South African
10
He returned it, still aloof, and said, There ain't any visitor's parking.
Blood music
11
The previous administration of George W. Bush stood aloof from the body.
Reuters
12
He's intensely thoughtful about the whole thing, and private, and quite aloof.
The Guardian
13
He was better liked than du Tancret but considered cold and aloof.
Surrender to the will of the night
14
From the anguish of the day before he held himself carefully aloof.
Jason: A Romance
15
These all held themselves quite aloof from the masses of the people.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
16
The Society itself, however, kept aloof from the battle of the journals.
Freeland: A Social Anticipation
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Aloof across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common