Distance has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | A curious German word is "entfernen" (to put some distance between), because the prefix "ent-" means to take something away, in this case the distance, but taking away the distance would mean to bring it closer which is the exact opposite of what the word "entfernen" means. | |
| 2. | They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance. | |
| 3. | How much distance could you accept in a long distance relationship? | |
| 4. | In an equilateral triangle with vertices A, B and C, the distance from A to B is the same distance as from B to C, or from C to A. | |
| 5. | A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. | |
| 6. | Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream. | |
| 7. | There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. | |
| 8. | You had better keep him at a respectful distance. | |
| 9. | It happened that I saw my friend walking in the distance. | |
| 10. | I can't judge distance. |