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Example sentences for "little distance"

  • The next day, early in the morning, the colonel came to the coffee- house and sent for his friend, who lodged but at a little distance.

  • Upon which, Booth, casting his eyes over the grass, saw a foot-soldier shaking the boy at a little distance.

  • This conversation past at a little distance, and out of the hearing of the supposed Amelia; when Booth, looking stedfastly at the lady, declared with an oath that he was positive the colonel was in the right.

  • Quite a long while went by before, glancing behind me, I saw that the oxen that had been grazing at a little distance had at length arrived and were being inspanned in furious haste.

  • Hearing a horse snort at a little distance, I made my way towards the sound and in a little bay of the overhanging cliff discovered the cart and near by our beasts tied up with a plentiful supply of forage.

  • As it chances, since then I passed the place where the Temple stood, though at a little distance.

  • We stood still and watched from a little distance.

  • Swallowing his coffee in a hurry, he took his place at a little distance from us, and stood there in a statuesque pose.

  • Indeed if their heads had been laid side by side at a little distance, it would not have been too easy to tell them apart with their projecting brows, beardless, retreating chins and yellow tushes at the corners of the mouth.

  • Here all our belongings, including the guns which we had collected just before the slaves ran away, were placed in one of the huts over which a Mazitu mounted guard, the donkeys being tied to the fence at a little distance.

  • On the 21st of July, as they were pursuing their course through one of the meadows of the Sweet Water, they beheld a horse grazing at a little distance.

  • A sentinel was immediately detached, to post himself at a little distance on their trail, and give the alarm, should he see or hear an enemy.

  • A little distance beyond it, also, herds of buffalo were to be met with, Out of range of danger.

  • Some of the latter gradually entered the swamp, and followed a little distance in their rear.

  • At a little distance up the road is a blacksmith’s shop.

  • When I had come nearly parallel with the commencement of this precipice, I saw on the left-hand side of the road two children looking over a low wall behind which at a little distance stood a wretched hovel.

  • At length, after passing through a gate and turning round a sharp corner, I suddenly beheld Hafod on my right hand, to the west at a little distance above me, on a rising ground, with a noble range of mountains behind it.

  • I left Hollyoake Square in a direction which led to some fields a little distance on.

  • As his subject Crows gazed on the affray from a little distance, Mr. Stuart ordered his men to level their rifles at them, but not to fire.

  • The smoke had risen from his encampment which took fire while he was at a little distance from it fishing.

  • Arthur Berkeley, fearful of what might happen to him in his present excited state, stole out after him quietly, and followed him unperceived in another hansom at a little distance.

  • As for Herbert, he merely bowed to him politely from a little distance; and Herbert, who had picked up at once with a Polish exile in a corner, returned the bow frigidly without coming up to the host himself at all for a moment's welcome.

  • In figure she was rather small than short, for though she was but a wee thing, her form was so exactly and delicately modelled that she might have looked tall if she stood alone at a little distance.

  • Presently the black foliage parted, and a man stepped forth, followed at a little distance by seven or eight others.

  • He examined the fields and forest for a little distance to see if any ambushed foe might still lie among them, but all the while the flame and smoke behind him were rising higher.

  • The darkness settled down thicker and thicker; the blackness in the forest was intense, and they could see the faces of one another only at a little distance.

  • He looked around angrily, and confronted Edward Eustis, who, seeing Phil's trouble from a little distance, had at once come to his rescue.

  • They walked on, but Pietro followed at a little distance.

  • So he rose from the seat, and withdrew to a little distance, Tim Rafferty following, for, though he cared little at first, he now felt determined to try the fiddle.

  • A little distance ahead of us were some boys throwing sticks in the water for two Newfoundland dogs.

  • Another way was to fix a bait in a certain place, with cords tied to it, which cords were fastened to triggers of guns placed at a little distance.

  • All this time, as I went through the wood, I was haunted with the feeling that other shapes, more like my own size and mien, were moving about at a little distance on all sides of me.

  • At a little distance in the field, I saw two of my brothers at play.

  • Moreover, he could bring her to him from a little distance.

  • When they came too near the Makalanga fired on them, killing some, so that they retreated to the camp, which they had made in a fold of ground at a little distance.

  • Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

  • In clear weather, in summer, they appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a great distance all appear alike.

  • On the third evening she came and sat by Orme for awhile, her attendants standing at a little distance.

  • All this while Sergeant Quick was engaged at a little distance in washing up the tin breakfast things, to all appearance quite unconscious of what was going on.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    little blue; little book; little breathlessly; little chapel; little chopped; little confused; little corner; little creek; little distance; little doll; little east; little enough; little frightened; little grimace; little inclination; little interest; little one; little pepper; little piece; little season; little sigh; little solution; little supper; little surprized; little uneasy; little valley