How to Use at a distance of in a Sentence
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The submersible had caught it at a distance of about 750 feet.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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For the 4-point shot, there will be four circles, two at each end of the court, that will be placed above the current three-point line at a distance of 28-feet from the rim.
—Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
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The purr was captured at a distance of one meter from the microphone to Bella, which is equivalent to just over one yard.
—Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
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Directly in front at a distance of 14 miles (23 kilometers) sat Popocatepetl, puffing smoke, the rim of its crater aglow.
—MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
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Since the picture was taken from so far away — at a distance of 1.4 million miles — Bennu appears as just a few pixels of light moving across space.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2023
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The famous Horsehead nebula, just below the left star in Orion's belt, is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth at a distance of about 1,375 light years.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
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At such distances, sending signals back to the 200-inch Hale telescope at Mount Palomar in California is roughly equivalent to hitting a dime at a distance of one mile.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
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Its microwave signal is (just) below the legal maximum power density for consumer mobile devices at a distance of 20 centimeters from the quad patch antenna.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Apr. 2016
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Voyager 1, at a distance of 24 billion km from Earth, and Voyager 2 have both left the Solar System, exploring the barren but scientifically interesting interstellar medium.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2023
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