Noun
What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun?
The gas station is a short distance away.
Speed is measured in time and distance.
She kept the children a safe distance from the road.
The sign was hard to read from a distance.
We followed them at a distance.
She feels a distance from her brother that wasn't there before.
Although they were once good friends, there was now considerable distance between them.
He wants to put distance between himself and his former boss.
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Noun
Inside stood several farmhouses cozily positioned within a comfortable walking distance from one another.—👁 Image Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026 Those questions signaled their belief that anyone occupying that office should maintain their distance from the president and uphold the Justice Department’s independence.—👁 Image Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
However, contrary to popular belief—which may well have arisen from Germany’s desire to distance itself from its Nazi past after the Second World War—carnival ultimately helped the Nazi party transform society in its own image.—👁 Image Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026 London Mayor Sadiq Khan is distancing the city’s government from the 2026 Wireless Festival, which announced earlier this week that Kanye West will headline three shows at Finsbury Park on July 10-12.—👁 Image Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Doug Mayer, an American who operates the Run the Alps trail running tour business out of Chamonix, said the PTL is closer to a mountaineering adventure than a typical ultra-distance trail running race.—👁 Image Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022 At one point, the former employee said, Johnson called out the employee and a mid-distance runner in front of the team during a training session inside the Moshofsky Center, the school’s indoor practice facility.—👁 Image Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2021 See All Example Sentences for distance
