Sentence examples for gauging distance from inspiring English sources

He batted at air, gauging distance and reach.

When I'm balanced on two thin wheels at 30 miles an hour, gauging distance, adjusting course, making hundreds of unconscious calculations every second, that idiot chatterbox in my head is kept too busy to get a word in.

A vertical view is best for gauging distances along the ground, a useful ability when you're lurking in the shadows and have only one shot at a mouse.

The technology has been used in a variety of ways over the last two decades, from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

Koehl said new field archers must work on their system for gauging distances and controlling their torso for shots that angle up or down on these demanding field courses.

They can weave through tight traffic and anticipate danger, gauge distance, direction, pace, and momentum.

In a report in Current Biology, they show that the fiddler crab Uca pugilator uses its stride to gauge distance.

That was one way to gauge distance — north of the capital, the urban development thinned out, and along the way the volunteers' gear became more ragged.

In humans, the brain processes the images our eyes provide and compares them with our databank of experience, enabling us to gauge distance.

Since the crabs were not moving, Dr. Layne said, this shows that they were using leg movements as a cue to gauge distance, rather than acceleration or the movement of the landscape across their vision.

The guy had meant merely to pantomime the punch, but having just bench-pressed hundreds of pounds he had lost the ability to gauge distance, strength, or speed, and he cracked Roberto right in the nose.