some distance

idiom

: not a short way
The nearest gas station is some distance away.

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Although his colleagues welcomed him warmly, even providing his child with free gear and accepting his broken English, Manuylov felt some distance between himself and the American standards that dominated snowboarding instruction. Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 The shooter wore dark clothing and fired from a building roof some distance away to the courtyard where the event at which Kirk was speaking took place. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 Footage filmed by a second camera from some distance shows a large explosion. Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 But the filmmaker clearly feels the core of the drama in his bones, which goes some distance toward masking its weaknesses. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for some distance

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“Some distance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some%20distance. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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