How to Use in the distance in a Sentence

in the distance

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• All the time the shrieks in the distance.
  — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
• There are hills in the distance, and the fog is down low.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• The sun set over a building in the distance.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
• Smoke stopped dead There was a steady roar in the distance.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
• Baechtel points to a strip of sand in the distance.
  — Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
• The drone of sirens in the distance was near constant.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• The place looked abandoned; a lone dog barked in the distance.
  — Nicole Krauss, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025
• The group stood on a beach with lush green mountains in the distance.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• There is a later train; wheels churn in the distance.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
• About an hour into the dive, a white-ish blob emerged in the distance.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• Ronny shielded his eyes at a cop in the distance.
  — Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
• An orca leapt out of the water in the distance, but no one looked up.
  — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
• Arakawa looked out in the distance and held up her arm to support her husband.
  — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2025
• Off in the distance, a white vein of lightning appeared in the lilac sky.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• At one point, the guide hurried her group past an object in the distance.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2025
• Stone just throws his thumb behind him at the road stretching off in the distance.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
• One video showed them for a stroll at the Presidio with the bridge in the distance.
  — Marina Watts, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• There was snow all around her, and white caps topping the mountain peaks in the distance.
  — Moira Donegan, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
• On my final evening after the game drive, a flute whines and drums thump in the distance.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 23 May 2025
• There aren’t any cruise ships in the distance and no loud jet skis whooshing by your window.
  — Demarco Williams, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• Ambulance’s sirens could be heard in the distance.
  — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• The scene around them was picturesque — horses strolled in the distance, the sky bore a bright blue.
  — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
• Some bring popcorn and snacks, and some snap selfies as the thud of airstrikes echo in the distance.
  — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
• All the things that do not happen tower in the distance and crumble in my hands.
  — Literary Hub, 31 July 2026
• At the end of the video, a large barn-like house appears in the distance off a long gravel road.
  — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
• Judy adjusts a strap on her overalls and points out toward a trail in the distance.
  — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
• Screams of desperation pierce the air amid the sound of sirens in the distance.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The palm trees will sway gently and the mountains will glimmer in the distance.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• Then, a sound in the distance struck terror in Morgan all over again.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
• The peak of Everest seems far off in the distance, obscured by clouds.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023