He distanced himself from his former wife.
She distanced herself from her boyfriend.
That stupid quarrel has distanced us.
Voters have been distanced from the party by adverse publicity.
Yet both the Israeli and American governments distanced themselves from these provocative statements.
Likewise, town dwellers are more distanced from the natural world than earlier generations were.
The party has distanced itself from the more rabid nationalist groups in the country.
This was partially due to my personal development efforts, as I distanced myself from the crowd to work on myself.
You've been described as Barack's closest adviser, But you've distanced yourself from that tag, with good reason.
Spain, whose bond yields have fallen and whose spreads with Germany have tightened, has distanced itself from Portugal.
John McCain has always stood for limited, principled government, and has distanced himself throughout his career from the religious ideologues that have warped Republicanism.
After the abbot publicly distanced Shaolin from the Olympics in October, Chinese bloggers and athletes began to suggest the monks are just scared they wouldn't win.
But anyway if our relationship hadn't been so good, it would have shown on screen, and we would have distanced ourselves from each other.
The spectre of contagion is receding. Spain, whose bond yields have fallen and whose spreads with Germany have tightened, has distanced itself from Portugal.
Last year he insinuated that he was the victim of racially clouded media attacks and predicted that Barack Obama would be the next target, a charge from which the President quickly distanced himself.
Strikingly, Apple’s Mr Jobs was an exception, having distanced himself from Apple after being ousted in a boardroom battle in 1985—a separation that may have contributed to his second-act success.
