Sentences with aloof
a·loof
A a - He seemed aloof and detached.
- The Government is keeping aloof from the controversy. [+ from]
- She was aloof, but never moved beyond earshot.
- His recent divorce from wife Cecilia ended the first chapter — replete with affairs, passionate reunions and elegant, aloof femmes fatales.
- Her manner was aloof
- The noise approaches, tho' our palace stood / Aloof from streets, encompass'd with a wood
- Jerusalem is a very quarrelsome place, but we stayed aloof from all the quarrels.
- Having observed that cats are at once aloof, hypersensual, cold, warm, completely elastic and mysterious.
- But to open the Bible in this spirit — to take the Book as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof, and with caution, as if throughout it were illusory and enigmatical, is the worst of all impieties.
- They always stood aloof from their classmates.
- Costello's alma mater and that of his son Sebastian, paints a picture of a man far removed from his aloof public image.
- Melbourne's most famous nude model, Chloe, hangs aloof on the wall of Young & Jackson Hotel, less than 100 metres away.
- Because of his shyness, he had the reputation of being aloof.