spitting distance

noun

informal

: a short distance

Our house is within spitting distance of the park.

Examples of spitting distance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Not exactly the target audience for the books, but within spitting distance of it. —Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025

Moore played a pivotal role in crafting one of the NFL's top rushing offenses this season, propelling Saquon Barkley to being the league's top rusher and within spitting distance of the all-time record. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025

Walton, who ranks No. 15 on The Forbes 400 overall, is now within spitting distance of becoming the second-ever female centibillionaire. —Matt Durot, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Lunar Lake confidently lands within spitting distance of the Snapdragon X Elite’s marathon battery life, matches its single-core performance, and utterly embarrasses it in graphics performance. —Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

It’s stayed at that level for a year now and has helped bring inflation within spitting distance of the Fed’s 2% target. —Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024

Although President Joe Biden won the state by seven points in 2020, challenger Donald Trump had been within spitting distance in Minnesota polling throughout the year. —Nico Lang, Them, 6 Aug. 2024

Its vagueness is its strength—any cause can be average—which is why it has lately been beat into the ground by every liberal politician within spitting distance of a microphone. —Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024

The Seine put the athletes, riding on their larger and smaller bateaux mouches, within spitting distance of Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Tuileries, Place Concorde, the Grand Palais and the Eiffel Tower. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024

Rhymes for spitting distance

• coexistence
• nonexistence
• assistance
• consistence
• desistance
• existence
• insistence
• persistence
• resistance
• subsistence
• magnetoresistance