1.   A lighthouse on the cliff warns ships to keep their distance.

2.   At first we kept our distance.

3.   Burgess says such activities increase the danger that sharks will lose the respect for humans that mostly makes them keep their distance.

4.   But Powell is keeping his distance.

5.   He shows no urge to rub shoulders with the lower orders but, if anything, a tendency to keep his distance.

6.   I saw him later, standing at a meeting of walls, a shy girl keeping her distance.

7.   It is easy to see it now in the way labor has kept its distance from the plant-closing movement.

8.   Knowing how easily she could erupt, they kept their distance.

9.   Police warned the public to keep their distance if they saw a man fitting this description.