Distances is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTANCES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DISTANCE, to move far from a particular point
• make (someone or something) far off or remote in position or nature
• declare that one is not connected with or a supporter of (someone or something)
• beat (a horse) by a distance.
NOUN:
• the length of the space between two points
• the condition of being far off; remoteness
• a far-off point
• the more remote part of what is visible or discernible
• an interval of time
• the full length of a race
• a space of more than twenty lengths between two finishers in a race
• a length of 240 yards from the winning post on a racecourse.
• the distance from the winning post which a horse must have reached when the winner finishes in order to qualify for a subsequent heat.
• the scheduled length of a fight
• the avoidance of familiarity; reserve
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to leave behind

Words related to DISTANCES

distance11 distanced13 distancing14

Words that contain DISTANCES

outdistances15 equidistances25 ultradistances17

How to use DISTANCES in a sentence

• My rather impaired eyesight improved in the open, with only wide distances to look at.
• His work took him a large part of the day, but as the visiting was done on foot, and considerable distances had to be traversed, it was a training in itself.
• In a large circle on this spot, twelve posts, between fifty and sixty feet high, were placed at equal distances, except one larger, opening in front by way of entrance.
• Daily these proportions widened and towered more and more upon my sight, and I got, at last, a proper foreground for these sublime distances.
• One of them, under forced draught, distances the others in her anxiety to bring her big guns quickly into action.
• They enable the seeds to fly long distances on the wind before they drop to the ground and are covered with leaves.
• All around the country, however, even for many miles, the bonfires were blazing, and shone at immense distances from every hill-top.
• Sophie lay back in her chair, eyes fixed on the red glow of the embers as if she saw through them and into vast distances beyond.
• We got four bows and attached them to the box, one at each end, and the other two at equal distances between.
• Nevertheless, all the family felt that they had taken a distinct step upward in moving into lake shore property and nobody complained of distances.
• There were as yet no roads worthy of the name to or from the settlement formed by himself and seven or eight neighbors at various distances.
• They have size and position, and are separated by distances.
• In several houses at long distances the shock was plainly felt.
• In the southern and eastern distances were the plains, silent, vast, unending.
• The big house on its spreading terraces, with windows looking over bright gardens to the hazy distances of the plains, seemed a haven of harmless ease and gaiety.
• They talked of many things that afternoon, and when at last the lengthening shadows warned them it was time to be on the way they rode long distances in silence.
• In other places it looks like a gate, and is made of several slim branches placed at regular distances like the steps of a ladder lying horizontally.
• This district was not far, as distances go in America from the scene of action.
• They could no longer seize the respective distances in perspective.
• The distances groaned, roared and growled, and would sometimes abruptly define the crest of the incline among the winding sheets of the mists.
• We descended and proceeded northward through the dense woods, in the midst of which, after estimating distances and time, I at length pulled my rein, and observed to Mr.
• He had dropped a piece of heavy machinery on his foot, the week before, and was only able to hobble short distances.
• It is astonishing to see in what countless numbers and to what great distances these fish ascend the Siberian rivers.
• DISTANCES A regiment of regulars was making a long, dusty march across the rolling prairie land of Montana last summer.
• Ferguson, lying on his back and slipping beads on a string at a certain distance above his eye, measured the relative distances of the stars.
• No doubt, direct evidence of seeds being carried great distances through the air is wanted, but, I am afraid, can hardly be obtained.
• First from the darkness outlines only emerged, vast and sinister, of such an appearance that it was impossible to tell their proportions or distances.

Similar words containing TANCE without suffix s and without prefix dis

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