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Sentences for distance. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use distance in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for distance.

• Randalls is such a distance. (4)
• The distance diminishes slowly. (21)
• No sky, no distance, barely the earth. (8)
• He should have lain off to the distance. (8)
• Not bad quarters, but an infernal distance. (10)
• The second boat followed at a short distance. (5)
• Distance appeared to answer the question favourably. (10)
• Rose saw him approach, and knew him in the distance. (10)
• At a short distance in their rear their commander comes. (1)
• He edges nearer to her, and she edges to keep her distance. (8)
• A goal gloriously illumined blazed on her from the distance. (10)
• Away in the distance he could see the spire of Harrow Church. (8)
• Already he looked back upon Dahlia from a prodigious distance. (22)
• No, you never can; and, unluckily, it is out of distance for a ride. (4)
• Our friend was silent, looking angrily at something in the distance. (8)
• He smiled at his own method of estimating distance, and crept forward. (1)
• The colonel turned toward a small knot of officers some distance away. (1)
• A woman standing at a little distance away fainted and fell unobserved. (1)
• Along it runs a stone wall extending to left and right a great distance. (1)
• We are kept at a great distance, that we may not scrutinize it too closely. (10)
• Within a certain distance of one of the carriages, a man rode on horseback. (10)
• They confessed ruefully to having backed him a certain distance, notwithstanding. (10)
• We stopped at a distance of half-a-dozen paces to allow her time for recollection. (10)
• At a distance the black pattern gives the camouflaged appearance of a shingle roof. (17)
• His gaze seemed to have to travel from an immense distance before it reached Courtier. (8)
• Ahead of him in the distance ran the second groom; behind him a labourer and a footman. (8)
• A nosegay, the last of the tributary shower, discharged from a distance, fell at her feet. (10)
• She was Arctic, and Antarctic he had to be, perforce of the distance she put between them. (10)
• And the two sported in the distance, under the stairs, on the stairs, and up in the gallery. (8)
• I have always a big one perched on a rock in the distance; but I speak of my present desire. (10)
• If 8-inch by 16-inch slates are used, this means that the distance should be about 5 inches. (17)
• She looked forth under her brows with mournful indistinctness at that object in the distance. (10)
• At this moment Mr. Weston appeared at a little distance from the window, evidently on the watch. (4)
• A peasant was singing in a field near by, and the bells of a church were chiming in the distance. (10)
• He was rather a fresh-faced man, of the Saxon colouring, and at a distance looking good-humoured. (10)
• She walked to a distance, out of hearing and out of sight of the house, and he silently followed. (10)
• The sun itself appeared singularly small, as if it were at an immensely greater distance than usual. (7)
• They were unsure of being seen by the floating grey of eyes patient to gaze from their vast distance. (10)
• And she waited at the far corner of the clump, where he must pass, some little distance from the station. (8)
• The rear battalions alone are in obedience; they preserve their proper distance from the insurgent front. (1)
• In the thickly settled East this is more successful than in the West, where distance helps the local paper. (16)
• No objection was made, but for some time there seemed no inclination to move in any plan, or to any distance. (4)
• They measured the distance between Cronidge and Moorsedge, the two houses, as for half an hour on horseback. (10)
• A man keeping at a fixed distance behind turned as we turned, paused as we paused, and pursued as we moved on. (7)
• He had his state-room things put at an appreciable distance, where he did not escape a final stab from Lottie. (9)
• With mixed feelings, she seated herself at a little distance from the numbers round the instrument, to listen. (4)
• Instantly the wall is topped with a fierce roll of smoke for a distance of hundreds of yards to right and left. (1)
• The Ambler turned his black, wild eye, crescented with white, threw up his head, and gazed far into the distance. (8)
• As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pantomime to do the effective part of the speeches. (10)
• It was very still, but for the tinkle of cowbells, and, from somewhere in the distance, the sound of dropping logs. (8)
• Perhaps all that had happened did not in reality have the deadly seriousness which it seemed to have at a distance. (12)
• Seen from a distance it was like a huge downy ball, kicked this way and that between the cypresses by invisible giants. (10)
• The carpentry of that city, embanked and embowered in foliage, shared the picturesqueness of Charlestown in the distance. (9)
• But whereas before it had seemed nearer, it now seemed an inconceivable distance away, and all the more sinister for that. (1)
• The hill, crowned with wood, which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. (4)
• He has to understand some geometry and mathematics, else how can he calculate the exact distance of a jump, a fall, a somersault? (21)
• The distance between Albany and Port Nelson was by water 250 leagues, and the road overland was {122} as yet unknown to the French. (19)
• By morning we had edged along a good way and thrown up rude intrenchments at a little distance from the road, on the threatened side. (7)
• High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody. (4)
• A bridge of boats connects the fortress with the town a short distance below the railway, and is actually the last bridge over the Danube. (20)
• While March watched them at a safe distance, a car laden with policemen came down the track, but none of the strikers offered to molest it. (9)
• By this time the officers, headed by the major, had quietly slipped out of the gate, and were following their steps at a convenient distance. (6)
• Mrs. Small, Aunt Hester, and their cat were left once more alone, the sound of a door closing in the distance announced the approach of Timothy. (8)
• Or the reach of a stream was seen, and in the middle of it one fair group of clouds, showing distance beyond distance in colour. (10)
• Merthyr questioned him, and he, while mending one of his gathered cigar-ends, pointed to a meadow near the beaten track, some distance up the rocks. (10)
• A game-cart, well-adorned with birds and hares, stood at a short distance; the tails of some dogs were seen moving humbly, and a valet opening bottles. (8)
• We found a reasonably solid landing-place on a little island near one of these stations, and a short distance above the little hamlet of Gura Ghirlitza. (20)
• Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance. (4)
• This territory embraces, generally, forty miles on the lines of all converging railroads and a distance of twenty miles in both directions from the tracks. (21)

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