distance
Example Sentences
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It is feasible that the winning team will have had to travel a distance the equivalent to the diameter of the Earth.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
From a distance, his mom watches in the shade on the benches.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The accommodations fit the historic bill and offer a comfortable and convenient home base for exploring downtown St. Paul, with restaurants, parks and the Mississippi River all within easy walking distance.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
But as the game wound down, Wembanyama was noticeably sluggish, and the Spurs’ attack devolved into a series of low-percentage tries from distance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
It is a twenty-mile downhill run through a river gorge studded with boulders and you run on an ice ledge steeply down, weaving in and out of the boulders for the whole distance.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing distance
Word Generation Science - Measurement
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The Number System
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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