How to Use equidistant in a Sentence

equidistant

adjective
  • Points on a circle are equidistant from its center.
  • Montreal is roughly equidistant from New York, Boston, and Toronto.
  • Bind the book by punching two equidistant holes along the left side of the pages and attach with the metal rings.
    Donna Erickson / Creative Parenting, Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
  • Twist ends together and bend into two equidistant hanging loops.
    Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 26 Mar. 2010
  • Marmosets do not have opposable thumbs and have thumbs that align with their fingers to make five equidistant digits.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • If roots are tangled and circling, cut 1 inch into the root mass at four equidistant places and at the bottom of the rootball.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The woodcuts are sui generis, in a mode that can seem, befuddlingly, equidistant from prints and paintings.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • Previous research has shown that three of the galaxies are akin to pearls on a string, roughly equidistant from us in the plane of the sky.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Lines at the few open businesses organize in equidistant intervals, with hashmarks taped on the ground every six feet.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Yin explains that the professor uses what's called an azimuthal equidistant map projection.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Any spherical distribution is symmetrical, since any point on a sphere would be equidistant from the center of the sphere.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The area covered is roughly equidistant from New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
    Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • That Publix is almost equidistant from the two South Florida offices.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Castelfalfi lies equidistant between the art cities of Florence and Siena, deep in the Tuscan countryside.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • In addition, radiating equiangular lines would pass through the surface of a surrounding sphere at equidistant points.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Nixon also noted their meeting took place approximately equidistant from the White House as to Tokyo.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This ticket must be cashed at one of the Florida Lottery offices, two of which are almost equidistant from that BJ’s.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In a famous example, two equidistant lightning strikes occur simultaneously for an observer at a train station who can see both at once.
    Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • On a logarithmic scale, the Sun, Mercury, and Mars are practically equidistant.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Each subject comprising a choice was harnessed and placed in the corners of a triangular experimental arena at an equidistant distance from the focal male.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
  • Città della Pieve is located in the center of Italy, roughly equidistant between Florence and Rome.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The quadrangular shape of the castle fits the stereotype of all castles having four equidistant walls with a single tower in each corner, but in fact this design has proved itself by standing through the centuries.
    New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Now, the camera does this through smart pixels, differently from a standard camera, where every pixel triggers information the same time at equidistant time intervals.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But unlike the Equator (0 degrees latitude), which is equidistant from the north and south poles, there is no natural basis for 0 degrees longitude.
    Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Evidence of the latter theory includes that everyone’s voices sound equidistant in the recordings, meaning someone could have been recording what was picked up off the microphones.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Under normal conditions, viewers see a reflection of the pleura as a series of equidistant horizontal lines, called A lines, throughout those organs.
    Lina Zeldovich, Scientific American, 11 June 2020
  • On both ends of the ideological spectrum, many Italians harbor a desire to be equidistant from Washington and Moscow.
    Marcus Walker, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Posad Pokrovske, which lies almost exactly equidistant between Mykolaiv and Kherson, is the last point under Ukrainian control.
    Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The convenient location to the region’s gateway airport in Nice places guests equidistant from Monaco and Saint-Tropez, which are about an hour away by private boat.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024
  • Much of this growth is attributable to a robust local housing market that benefits from being equidistant from New York City and Boston.
    courant.com, 9 July 2021

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