Sentence examples for neat distance from inspiring English sources

For despite the fact that I already had a girl and a boy, a neat distance apart, I had a burning, overwhelming desire for that third baby.

And in a painting from the 1770's by Paul Sandby in which Eton College Chapel looms quietly in the distance over neat old homes while women tend cows in the foreground of a parklike pasture, you have a harmonious marriage of nature and culture -- a promise of order in a world about to plunge into the swirling vortex of modernity.

Far in the distance, a neat line moves across the horizon, trailing puffs of cloud like a steam train.

"Movie people are sniffing around," Mr. Martin said, in a neat and inadvertent bit of rhetorical distancing; he's not convinced it would make a good film, anyway, though he added that Winona Ryder or Chloe Sevigny would be great as Mirabelle.

As for the man himself, he insists on keeping his distance, and paid Pacquiao a neat back-handed compliment.

(Some neat effects involve action at a close distance — pinning assailants to the ceiling, emptying the cartridge of an attacker's gun before he can shoot her, creating force fields that her pursuers slam up against).

All around, the rolling hills were covered with neat rows of tea, looking from a distance like corduroy in racing green; tiny figures bent and picked with deft expertise.

Twisting the fibers to a higher degree, a yarn-derived spring-like CNT rope, that consisted of uniform, neat loops with perfect arrangement over long distance, were formed (Fig. 7c, d) [36].

Vineyards carpet the valley in neat rows, the sea just visible in the distance.

My uniform was neat and pressed, and I looked, from a distance, just like all the others.

I know how to get people on my side from a distance, and that's a pretty neat trick.