Sentence examples for a familiar distance from inspiring English sources

A familiar distance falls away; the intimacy startles.

As I was driving away from a friend's house recently, I saw in the distance a familiar looking playground and the school at which I attended Kindergarten through third grade.

When Maris would walk past the storefronts on the main drag and a familiar face approached in the distance, he would lean into Savageau's ear and ask for a name so as not to appear haughty to his, well, homeys.

Memory test showed that chicks from all groups traveled a similar distance toward a familiar object.

Coleman (1962) showed that humans can use change in timbre effectively to estimate distance when a familiar sound is heard.

Off in the distance she saw a familiar orange-colored figure lying by the water's edge.

Three more one-hour classes later, the school day was over and she was on her way home when she spotted a familiar, but disturbing sight from a distance.

Her tone then shifted, and she used the word ngalkarla — which means a familiar sound or a rhythm heard from a distance.

A familiar tune billows above us, and we are carried along by it for a short distance.

This became a familiar image, spectacularly so in Alonso Cano's painting, where she directs it from some distance.

(B ) The distance from the restrainer was not different for rats tested with cagemates (white circles) and strangers from a familiar strain (black circles).