within touching distance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Very close.
Example Sentences
- "Away they started, lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other."
- "But the journey went on. Slower as the river became more intimate; reeds at the edge almost within touching distance. Waterfowl. A heron stalkily still. Dank lank growth and then the smells of intensive farming."
- "He will know that, for 70 minutes, United produced arguably their best performance under him as Manuel Ugarte and Diogo Dalot put them within touching distance of a place in the last four."