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Example sentences for "small distance"

  • A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance.

  • To get near, to approach within a small distance.

  • A small distance or degree, whether or time Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch.

  • We were at Church; the service in the town is always English; at the parish Church at a small distance, always Welsh.

  • The king also sat down at a small distance, forming his intrenchment on the bank of a river which the inhabitants call Erigonus.

  • At a small distance, on the Malian bay, Thoas had two thousand foot and two hundred horse, with as many as thirty light transport ships.

  • Both infantry and cavalry were now within a small distance of the camp, and some of the Thracians had attacked parties of the enemy, who were straggling and scattered over the country, when the sudden alarm reached their tents.

  • The general appearance of the country as it presents itself on ascending may be thus described: From its mouth to the two Charletons, a ridge of highlands borders the river at a small distance, leaving between them fine rich meadows.

  • Here he found his party so much cut and pierced with the sharp flint and the prickly pear that he proceeded only a small distance further, and then halted to wait for us.

  • Philanthrophy River which discharges itself by 2 channels a small distance assunder.

  • This difficulty, when joined with a small distance, interrupts and weakens the fancy: But has a contrary effect in a great removal.

  • In answer to Miss Inglefield's interrogatories, he merely said that the traveller inquired whither the road led which, at a small distance forward, struck out of the principal one.

  • At a small distance I mistook him for a stranger.

  • This track led us to the skirt of the wilderness, and at no long time we reached an open field, when a dwelling appeared, at a small distance, which I speedily recognised to be that belonging to Inglefield.

  • I took my station at a small distance, beside a fence, on the right hand.

  • A small distance or degree, whether or time
  • He, to gratify me and some others, withdrew a small distance, but his anxiety for the fate of the day soon brought him up again, where he remained till our troops had retreated.

  • Their line was formed a small distance in front of their camp on a plain thinly covered with pine, shrub-oaks, and under-growth, and extended from the river about a mile to a marsh at the foot of the mountain.

  • However, it would again recoil with a surprising quickness, when my hand came within a small distance of it.

  • Behind, and at a small distance beyond, was the tower of Babylon, which is still to be seen, and is half a league in diameter.

  • Over the land on this side of the island we could see a large lake of salt water, or lagoon, which appeared to be two or three leagues wide, and to reach within a small distance of the opposite shore.

  • Mr. Ashworth and our sick comrade were employed in getting some, while Mr. Tuthill and myself retired to a small distance, under cover of a quickset hedge.

  • After a short time, I recommenced my search; and, in a little boat at a small distance, I observed two men pulling down a narrow creek.

  • At last, to our unspeakable delight, we perceived at a small distance a copse or kind of little forest, not more than three or four acres in circumference.

  • My men imagined that the carrying place was at a small distance below us, as a path appeared to ascend a hill, where there were several lodges, of the last year's construction.

  • There we met one of the men, who informed us that the canoe was at a small distance below, at the foot of a very strong rapid, and that as several waterfalls appeared up the river, we should be obliged to unload and carry.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small 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:
    mighty monarch; small boat; small bodies; small bush; small caste; small child; small city; small compass; small degree; small dish; small force; small head; small house; small library; small onions; small percentage; small pica; small pinch; small plain; small present; small share; small shot; small steamer; small table; small telescope; small volume