How to Use some distance in a Sentence

some distance

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• Messi is some distance away on the right.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• Like, to create like some distance.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• At other times, there’s some distance.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
• The best approach is to place some distance between the tree’s trunk and the lawn.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
• The museum was some distance away by bus.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• Release them some distance from the building.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• Olympic results from last year go some distance toward proving that point.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 29 July 2025
• And the admiring smile from the lady some distance off.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Once out, Chapman placed some distance between him and the teens and shots were fired.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Off camera, the ambulance stops some distance down the street.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
• There are a few other houses in sight, each one located at some distance from mine.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Artificial light sources could be a streetlight or a light in a house some distance away.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The key to these methods is using a standard spray bottle to give you some distance from the nest.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 July 2023
• Instead, the doc circles the topic of his weight and his desire to be loved with some distance.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
• Footage filmed by a second camera from some distance shows a large explosion.
  — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• With some distance from the incident, the actress is looking back on it through a comedic lens.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
• But that space was cramped, and not conducive to a moment when people want some distance from each other.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 May 2022
• Consider two circles some distance apart on a piece of paper.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
• Give some distance to trucks salting and brining streets to ensure the products hits the street and not your car.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Five bodies were found there, and a sixth victim was found some distance away, Warrick said.
  — Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Hearing the call, the man threw Holmes’ phone some distance into the snow and took off running.
  — David Hulen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Wall made his free throw to complete the three-point play, adding some distance for a 35-29 lead.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Even though these two forces pull on Batman over some distance, neither one does any work on the system.
  — Wired, 24 July 2022
• The battery in a plug-in hybrid can travel some distance on battery power alone.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• Over dozens of phone calls, in rants that often strayed some distance from the subject at hand, Frank told me his story.
  — Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
• The Gamecocks keep getting close but Texas finds a way to put some distance between them.
  — Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
• After putting some distance between them, Wissing turned away from the angry man.
  — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
• Williams also created some distance in fifth place due to Sainz's podium.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
• The sound of the engine idling is enough to terminate all conversation for some distance.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
• But the guidance underscores that those investments are still some distance from paying off.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025