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Example sentences for "safe distance"

  • If you will be advised by me, Mr Desmond, in that case you will retreat to a safe distance, and place the ladies and children under shelter," observed the doctor.

  • Its snout before long appeared above the surface, when Jumbo, aware of the rush it would make, scampered off up the steep bank to a safe distance.

  • He knew it well, but had always kept at a safe distance from it.

  • He drew one of the small creatures back with the point of his spear and examined it from a safe distance.

  • Creeping away to a safe distance, the sub.

  • Thank goodness I have yet time to put a safe distance between me and that infernal machine.

  • His hunting companion, who all this time had stood atop of a hill at a safe distance, viewed these performances with concern.

  • Two of the men holding the ends at a safe distance stretched a light strong cord across the beasts' hind legs, and sawed it back and forth.

  • Either we had come too soon, or she had heard us and retired to what she considered a safe distance.

  • Retreat was clearly the part of discretion, and so the whole gathering streamed away down the road to a safe distance.

  • The boys stood and joked one another about it, while the girls looked on from a safe distance.

  • We reconnoitered the place at a safe distance.

  • But usually they could "gentle" a mine to the surface and set it off by rifle shots at a safe distance.

  • A rowing galley, with its platform crowded by soldiers waiting to board had no chance against a sailing ship which could fire all the guns of her broadsides at a safe distance.

  • The mines then rose to the surface, where they could be set off at a safe distance.

  • When we had passed to a safe distance, I met a farmer in a wagon, and asked him the name of the illuminated building.

  • The clipping of Cheese II on Monday morning proved to be an exhibition well worth witnessing--at a safe distance.

  • So Coonskin waded in and, tying the reins around the broken traces, led the horse on to dry land at a safe distance.

  • Deserted, the clerk swiftly retreated behind his counter, behind which, from a safe distance, he issued defiant mutterings.

  • She turned and sped across by the same way as yesterday, and Julie followed her at a safe distance.

  • And behind her, at a safe distance, crouched Julie Hamon, watching Nance and L'Etat at the same time, as a cat in the shade watches a sparrow playing in the sunshine.

  • He saw families of awkward little fawn-coloured squawkers force their way out of their shells under his very eves, while indignant mothers told him what they thought of him from a safe distance.

  • We were on the scene at a safe distance, each with a tight grip on his gun, expecting the bear to make a sudden plunge.

  • Although they darted about under water in a threatening manner, they only rose to the surface at a safe distance.

  • There were seven musk oxen in all, and they tried to keep the dogs scattered at a safe distance.

  • With dismay and rage, the walruses sank into the water, and the bear slunk off to a safe distance, where he sat down to a comfortable meal.

  • There was no lack of these, at a safe distance, but they all seemed to be affected by the same mania.

  • I saw the dance, sir, from a safe distance," I replied.

  • They had been, indeed, but guarded and covert allusions--grimaces from a safe distance.

  • Yet Cape Town was many hundred miles from the unprotected border, and it is so very easy at a safe distance to ridicule the apprehensions of those to whom the fulfilment of their fears would mean ruin and death.

  • Now," said McShane, withdrawing to a safe distance.

  • When he took unto himself a wife he grew fiercer still, and his rage and passion at the slightest sign of any intruder kept all other members of the tribe at a safe distance.

  • This not being the case, I decline the office, except so far as I can fill it at a safe distance on paper.

  • How it bounds away from you, making you almost glad that your attempt was a failure; how lovingly your eye follows it, as it makes the swift breathless circle, and stops at a safe distance to nod you defiance.

  • The Wolf made off to a safe distance, and then said in a much injured tone: "You have no right to take my property like that!

  • Whatever it is, it is wisest to keep at a safe distance.

  • If we could only get him away to a safe distance!

  • Mr. Chattaway, who had never looked towards the man, never moved a muscle of his face, turned his head to steal a glance when he deemed him at a safe distance.

  • Very still they remained until he was at a safe distance, and then they went through the gate.


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


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