in the distance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.85 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance"
- "After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming."
- "While Hefzur was adjusting, conditions for the Rohingya in Myanmar, where his family was still living, were deteriorating. His parents described villages burning in the distance. They had to go, they informed him."