distance

Example Sentences

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Both of our characters stood on a bridge, water rippling below us, a forest bright and green around us, and ancient ruins in the distance.

From Literature

The best way to prevent a conflict with Cadet Mason is to keep your distance, she’d said, like it was easy to do in a class as small as ours.

From Literature

The same access journalism — the implicit bargain in which reporters trade critical distance for proximity to power — remains.

From Salon

They observed magnetic textures reaching distances of up to ~300 nm, far exceeding the size of a single moiré cell and roughly ten times larger than the underlying wavelength.

From Science Daily

Guests were able to exit the basement and return to their rooms after a few hours and since then McKinney said she had only been able to hear "banging" in the distance.

From BBC