Sentences with Distance, Sentences about Distance in English
1. We saw a dim light in the distance.
2. He is used to walking long distances.
3. We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.
4. Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
5. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
6. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
7. Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human.
8. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
9. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
10. It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.
11. If you can capture a woman’s imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
12. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
13. We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
14. I perfectly understood President Obama’s attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It’s the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
15. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
16. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
