at a distance
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
His boxing allowed him to keep Pantoja at a distance and respond when the Brazilian tried to close in to take him down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
During a naval exercise in 2025, the Revolutionary Guard demonstrated a system using a Fajr-5 rocket to deploy a sea mine at a distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The ban is also imposed on very small weekly parades from the church in protest, which stop at a police line at a distance from Garvaghy Road.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Moving to Singapore -- a playbook sometimes dubbed "Singapore-washing" -- can help Chinese startups tap international capital and overseas users, supposedly at a distance from Beijing's legal and political reach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word