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Example sentences for "long distance"

  • By means of this Antelope Jack and his friends can keep track of each other when they are a long distance apart.

  • He can dive and swim under water a long distance, though not as far as Paddy the Beaver.

  • He is capable of leaping a long distance, and when he strikes his prey his great weight, added to the force of his spring, is almost certain to knock it down, even though it be much bigger than Puma himself.

  • In the first place, it goes almost straight down for a long distance.

  • For a long distance, the road followed the side of a gorge in which a fine brook plunged and dashed.

  • I wish to go a long distance,--don't think me foolish when I tell you where.

  • He can see the boat and the bait a long distance.

  • At long distance he saw my bait, and as he went under I saw he had headed for it.

  • There were several hours when the sea was smooth and we could have sighted a swordfish a long distance.

  • After dinner I slept till eight o'clock in the evening, and when I awoke I found my two comrades in a state of the greatest anxiety, for they had seen three Tibetan horsemen spying upon us from a long distance.

  • We crawled for a long distance on our hands and feet, dazed and indifferent, as if we were walking in our sleep.

  • From a long distance we can see the white band of breakers dashing against the beach, and as we approach closer a forest of steamer funnels, sails, and masts, and beyond them a long row of Asiatic and European buildings.

  • Let us dig here; it is a long distance to the woods"; but the spade again slipped out of our hands, and we could only stumble and crawl on eastwards.

  • It was visible from a long distance, for it might be as much as 200 feet high, and the oil was collected within dams thrown up around.

  • Then he goes away in great distress, and there is no one who recognises him save Lunete, who accompanied him a long distance.

  • With great joy and jubilee the king escorts them for a long distance on their way.

  • They are very glad for what they hear, and loudly praise his courtesy, and after escorting him a long distance, they all commend him to God.

  • The next was written at another time: "I have wandered a long distance, and for many hours, and I know that I must soon die.

  • Hedge and ditch, and wall, and rick and stack, were examined by our men for a long distance round, lest the boy should be lying in such a place insensible or dead; but nothing was seen to indicate that he had ever been near.

  • Approaching, he observes that she has journeyed a long distance and is footsore and travel- stained.

  • Most ships are provided with syntonic receivers which are tuned to long distance transmitters, and are capable of receiving messages up to distances of 3,000 miles or more.

  • When the power or energy is conveyed a long distance from the generator, say over 30 miles or more, we usually speak of the system of supply as long distance transmission of electric energy.

  • Long distance transmission by wireless was only made possible by grounding one of the conductors in the transmitter.

  • When in harbor, either at Liverpool or New York, the wires are connected to the City Central exchange so that the ships can be communicated with either by local or long distance telephone.

  • The result might be different should the elands take the alarm at a long distance off, and scour away over the plain.

  • These they had tracked and followed for a long distance, and had succeeded, at length, in running them into a valley where the snow was exceedingly deep, and where the moose became entangled.

  • I shall raise a large cone of stones upon the hill, which is very prominent and can be seen from a long distance.

  • Seeing there was no hope for anything to the west for a long distance, I changed my course to the south on a bearing of 190 degrees to cross the stony rise, keeping on the sand hills for the benefit of the horses' feet.

  • I take this emphatic snapping of his fingers to mean a long distance.

  • We came across some natives, who kept a long distance off.

  • Yes, solid ground, surrounded for a long distance by mud.

  • They waded in the pebbly bed of the brook for a long distance.

  • Heavy Collar had followed the river up, and had gone a long distance out of his way; and when he awoke from his sleep he too started straight for the Belly River Buttes, as he had said he would.

  • Sometimes, as a matter of convenience, a herd was brought from a long distance close up to the camp.

  • For a long distance up and down the river rose the smoke of many lodges.

  • He heard the splash of the boat as it struck water, and the rattle of oars, but the sound seemed a long distance away.

  • He must have come a long distance," said Tatpan, "and he has traveled fast.

  • It was like the explosion of a cannon a long distance away.

  • He had a long distance to travel, but he reached the scene of the encounter with the strange animal, just as it was growing dark.

  • The words were yet in the mouth of Fred when he received a shock that for a moment held him speechless; a long distance to the right he caught the sound of the cow-bell!

  • I'm going wid ye to the camp in the Ozark Mountains; do ye think I could rist aisy, knowin' that ye had to travel such a long distance wid no one to take care of ye?

  • They would have been compelled to go a long distance up stream before finding a place where the crossing was easier, and it would have been almost impossible to drag the canoe thither.

  • The boys have broken the ice for a long distance on the creek and all of us early risers have gone there for a plunge, and a short swim.

  • Dick felt the bullet grazing his head, and he raised his own pistol to fire, but Slade was gone, and, although they trailed him a long distance in the snow, they did not find him.

  • It was not a long distance to Charlestown, and when they arrived there they dismounted and waited.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long distance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    excellent supper; long account; long away; long been; long continued; long cord; long distances; long experience; long interval; long journey; long pepper; long sigh; long speech; long story; long struggle; long succession; long table; long time; long while; longer exist; longer stay; longer the; longitudinal section; paper read; public administration; thin glass