What is the exact distance between San Francisco and San Diego?
He travelled in distant lands for many years.
Last year's accident is now, thankfully, a distant memory.
When she finally saw her father, he seemed distant and uninterested in her.
I am
distantly related to a famous gangster of the 1920s.
The distance is much too far to walk.
Richard's wife is distantly related to Yoko Ono, wife of Beatle John Lennon.
The young boy followed the girls at a distance, trying to get up the courage to speak to
them.
The young man tried to distance himself from the racist comments made by his father.
Denis Diderot once remarked that distance is a great promoter of admiration.
There is an Omaha Indian proverb which states that it is easy to be brave from a distance.
There is a
Rwandan proverb which observes that you can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
Victor Borge once said that laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
A charging elephant can reach a speed of 25 miles per hour for a short distance.
There is a kind of bird that migrates a total distance of almost 25,000 miles every year.
The last words of John Sedgewick before being shot were, "Nonsense, they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."