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How to use the word distance in a Sentence?

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Entanglement whispers the poetry of interconnectedness, where particles, once entwined, resonate in harmony regardless of the distance that separates them.

Martin Tobias Lithner

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4 months ago

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Joan Didion

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10 months ago

The design objectives for an air-time record would be vastly different from the low-drag version we built for the longest-distance record, increasing the wingspan and decreasing the aspect ratio would be the first steps in producing this type of plane.

Dillon Ruble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We found the optimal angle is about 40 degrees off the ground. Once Dillon Ruble’re aiming that high, Dillon Ruble throw as hard as possible. That gives us our best distance, it took simulations to figure that out. I did n’t think we could get useful data from a simulation on a paper airplane. Turns out, we could.

Garrett Jensen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights, we have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%.

Teddy Tzanetos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was really manageable – we felt very lucky how successfully we navigated long distance.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner.

Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From there, there were definitely a lot of discussions to figure out, how are we going to be able to make this work long distance?

Bolivia Augustin and Michelle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, they could never correctly communicate distance.

James Nieh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To put things in perspective, Matamoros is about 1,360 miles away from Cancun ; that’s about the equivalent distance from the Texas side of the border to Chicago, Illinois.

Zachary Rabinor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two gunmen approached and we believe both have fired multiple shots. John ran a short distance and fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, the gunmen continued to fire at him.

Mark McEwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You must distance yourself from the past if you want to realize your specific ideal.”

Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

If a consumer has the opportunity to purchase locally, then they definitely should. That’s especially true for mom-and-pop neighborhood operations and the high-street retailer downtown, if something is available within walking, biking or metro distance, go to the store and pick it up. That simple change can solve so many environmental issues.

John Pabon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ICBM-class ballistic missile launched this time could have a range of over 15,000 km when calculated based on the flight distance of this ICBM, it depends on the weight of the warhead, but in that case, the US mainland would be included in the range.

Yasukazu Hamada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These resins provide fresh evidence for long-distance trade networks, and raise the question of how and when the Egyptians learnt of these resins and obtained a specialized understanding of their properties and relevance to mummification.

Salima Ikram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Finally, at one point, I was able to pull the gun away from him, shove him aside, create some distance.

Tom Tsay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I saw they wanted to add drones to the training, my question was – are we going to have one drone per person and multiple chances to practice flying it ? if they stick to their old way of teaching, they will just tell us to follow their instructions and memorize its weight and flight distance, and we will not be able to operate it.

Adam Yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m part of a system that enables political leaders to have it both ways, to indulge in ugliness and irresponsibility and to distance themselves from their own actions. The press provides the alibi as it prosecutes the case.

Olivia Nuzzi

added by anonymous
1 year ago

It’s not just explicit materials in schools, but they're concerned about [COVID-19] lockdowns, distance learning, the quality of education, woke politics in classrooms, and the achievement.

Preya Samsundar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re hearing from folks in the community that they’re tired of the politicization of the schools their children attend, it’s not just explicit materials in schools, but they're concerned about [ COVID-19 ] lockdowns, distance learning, the quality of education, woke politics in classrooms, and the achievement.

Preya Samsundar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is not like in the Star Trek films (where one is) transporting something, certainly not the person, over some distance.

Anton Zeilinger

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If somebody was able to cause the meltdown of the reactors,( gases) could escape in the atmosphere and the would travel with the wind until they are washed out of the atmosphere, with distance, dilution happens -- so very soon, the dilution becomes sufficient that the impact becomes not very serious for the environment and for people's health.

Leon Cizelj

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At this time we are cautioning swimmers and boaters in the area to be aware of this ongoing situation, and to keep distance to allow the Law Enforcement to monitor this event.

Quogue Village Police Department -RRB-

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun -- was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him, many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting.

James Ison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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