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Sentence Examples Scott was a few paces behind him, and he quickly slipped his arm protectively around my waist. Instead he moved a few paces away, sitting by the dying fire and stoking the flames higher. He straightens and stands oddly for a moment, staring blankly at the man crossing the underground parking lot twenty paces away. Curiosity overtaking her, she started to move towards the mysterious person and at the two rapid paces, arrived at one another unusually quickly. Trying to stand on shaking legs, she managed to get up and walk two paces, but then she collapsed into an undignified heap. To an extent, I'm working blind, and have to step back several paces to check I've got everything that ought to be got. Jady had only moved nearly ten paces before the girl darted out in front of Jady. I listened, and could hear him walk a good twenty paces down a concrete corridor. Something caught my attention, I forget what it was, so I did a double take and stepped back a few paces to get a better look. Walk fifteen paces, must be fifteen exactly, then hop three times forwards and one hop back. She let go and the enforcer stumbled back a few paces, getting some distance from her. She stepped forward into a square room with no windows, perhaps ten paces across. She watched shadowy footsteps catch up and go in front, then resumed her earlier speed some five paces behind. Count eight paces from the high chair to the flashy space at the studio's end. The poor runner has covered a distance of 100 paces before the good runner sets off in pursuit. He spied the jaguar disappear into the trees and then Pockets sent the sentry unit a few paces before him as he followed. We hauled rock-hard water from the well about fifty paces out the front of the house. They broke apart, and Quin glared across the two paces or so of distance between him and his foe, waiting patiently for the next onslaught. Every twenty or so paces, there appeared a door to one side, a barred door made of iron, thick and solid. Naoise strode exactly twenty paces away, and turned to face Danovin, falling into the first fighting stance Dendria had taught him. Show More Sentences Our regiment then retreated, about fifty paces, I think, and there we halted just behind the brow of a hill. Unbelievably large, it must have measured at least over a hundred paces in length and width. They had only gone about fifty paces, tripping over rocks and disturbing dust, when the direction of the sound changed. When one runner paces another, it means the pace runner doesn't compete but accompanies the other runner to keep their spirits up. She trains alongside local club rower, Jiri Mizera who paces her making every practice a mini competition. I for one am looking forward to receiving a sample and putting it through its paces. The officers will be trained by the city council's road safety team with training supervisor Mieke Jackson putting them through their paces. Nothing is really tested until it has been put through its paces out in the real world and I cheerfully ignore any tests I read about! At Plymouth she will be put through her paces on her ability to berth and secure to a buoy, along with her storing facilities. Robert LaFosse was the ringmaster who put these tykes through their paces with commanding smacks of a huge horsewhip. It is quite awkward to get at the flag, particularly when it is only seven or eight paces on the green. The fresh bull is put through its paces by the banderillos and the matadors, who will make some passes to study its movement and pace. Evie ran along treacherous clifftop paths, through tangled trees, always fleeing a nameless pursuer who was only a few paces behind. The children were put through their paces in the first rehearsal with the company on Sunday as they learned clog dancing. She pulled out her penlight, attached it to her hat and continued to fill out her sheet, writing timings and estimated paces. A gem-collector friend of mine claims he can tell if a diamond is a fake from twenty paces. A pert, young blonde came in to put us through our mathematical paces but alas, she came bearing fractions. Throughout the concerto, the soloist is put through his paces with miles of finger-bending figurations. Wilson paces the book by decades, but too often this can seem to be a bit of a plod. There's plenty of room for poetic licence as a willing audience puts the panel through its paces. Show More Sentences I've taken possession of the new artificial limb and am currently putting it through its paces. A large crowd of spectators attended and thoroughly enjoyed horses and riders being put through their paces. His growl is impressively rabid, and his bark could curdle a bowl of milk at 20 paces. The Leigh Centurions captain put eager children through their paces at rugby. Then turn an angle of the rock and advance a few paces, when your lights flash upon the gaping oyster-shell. Again the alert Connor was in the thick of things as he made a dart for the line, only to be blocked a couple of paces short of the target. Heisenberg, red-haired, balding, gnomish, looking older than his years, paces in front of a blackboard as he speaks. I was a few paces on before I even considered my selfishness and lack of empathy. The dining table is just adequate enough to serve the family and is placed in such a way that it is just a few paces from the kitchen. If one leaves the town by the South Gate, walks 14 paces due south, then walks due west for 1775 paces, the tree will just come into view. Four film crews followed them as they were put through their paces in the austere classrooms and spartan dormitories by real teachers. Eve's footsteps were echoing off the dank walls as she walked forward a few paces. She is being put through her paces by mate Lorraine and says she will feel a sense of achievement in completing the 5km race. Damien stumbled back a few paces, caught by surprise and jolted by the force of the blow. The gelding whickered nervously at his approach, drawing back several paces, stomping the grasses with his hooves. Ferguson stood at all times in front of the dugout, two paces ahead of his entire coaching staff. On a sunny day, an area just a few paces on a side would generate a kilowatt of electrical power. Recessed, arched alcoves terminating in solid plank wooden doors were placed about every 10 paces on alternate sides of the corridor. He agreed, a huge smile wreathing his face as he walked the few paces over to the other side of his room. I was only a few paces down the lane when the full impact of the crow's plight registered in my mind. Show More Sentences Lori crossed the room in a few quick paces and hopped up on a stool at the island that sectioned off the kitchen from the dinning room. We eased our way through the crowd and into the park which after only a few paces seemed many leagues distant from the City surrounding it. Murray paces the sequence perfectly and shows a real gift in never rushing the reveal. Tracing the rivulet a hundred paces from the highway, she found the spring that fed it. As the lead donkey, a roan stallion came within a hundred paces of the gate, it stopped and the animals began to bunch up behind him. Over the 3 days, the players were put through their paces of hurling as well as taking part in fun-games, rounders and skills testing. She put Hector through his paces in front of 220 pupils during the school assembly. Kathryn jumped and the gelding spooked as well, shying a few paces to the left and dragging Kathryn with him. Wordlessly, Joe turned and walked a few paces, setting the distance for the gunfight. A seasoned chazzer can spot linen lounge pants, a cashmere cardie or a silk sari at 100 paces. He paces around in a panic comparing makes and models of everything and anything as if his life depended upon it. With maybe three paces, with half the customary backlift of a player intending to blast the ball, he guided it with his right instep. In the Amazon, a Waorani hunter detects the scent of animal urine at forty paces and identifies the species that deposited it. She paces backwards and forwards, at one end of the platform, muttering quietly to herself, gesticulating with quick fingers. Tracy groaned fearfully as she paces back and forth alone around the stairs going up to the B building and the portables. The ballistics of a bullet lodged in the sidewalk indicated that the man missed, from five paces away. It's no wonder the US military wanted them out of the army in Vietnam, they couldn't hit a barn door from three paces. And, besides, it gave Graham a place to hide while I beetled over to the display of windchimes and began to put them through their paces. Enhance my vision telescopically, allowing me to read fine print from the far side of the restaurant, or see an ant at fifty paces. He was a most methodical man and, on daily walks in the College garden and elsewhere, he counted the number of paces from one place to another. Show More Sentences An idea I like better is that he measured the distance in terms of paces, and later misremembered the number as counting feet. I tried to walk at different paces to the mobbers around me so I wasn't saying hello to the same people all the time. He was only twenty paces ahead of her, if she could only catch up, she could stop him. He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative. She paces around the room in a blood-soaked nightie, in front of blood-smeared walls. I get blushing kidneys in front of urinals if there's someone else within five paces of me. O'Grady opened the door and threw Carl bodily out into the night where he staggered a few paces before falling headfirst into a patch of mud. In the Kiev Sports Palace gymnasium I watched Larissa go through her paces to the strains of music by Tchaikovsky. She paces the room with her baby close to her chest, murmuring quietly against her ear to pacify her. So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces. Hate to join the dog pile but a thousand paces of a Roman legionnaire is no longer an applicable unit of measure. He was only five paces away from Lyenda who had then pulled on tabs for her drawing arms and had put on the arm bracers. The weather varied from blowing snow to clear skies and ensured all skiers were put through their paces. Casting to type and then some, Ozon puts each of his vedettes through her paces, then rewards her with a song. He paces the bow, cramped as it is, like the caged ocelot or the little peccary leashed to a cleat. She's simply inserted into the plot as a romantic device who just happens to be a crack shot at two hundred-fifty paces. The lobby was just a few paces away, literally humming with activity. Only when the regulations have been put through the paces associated with real-world litigation will the full ramifications and impact truly be known. She took one pace forward into the gale and six paces back into the warm. The different circumstances and traditions of the various colonies and dependencies meant that they were developing at different paces and had little in common. Show More Sentences Her hand strayed to the hilt of the small dagger that hung from a black leather belt about her waist at all times, and she took three wary paces forward. The students were put through their paces with day and night trainers. He was just two paces in front of me, he had no minders around him. As de facto host of the evening, Robertson shepherds the musicians through their paces, pouncing quickly on technical troubles, shooting a worried glance off stage. Carl walked the thirteen paces towards the inferno then stopped. He paces back and forth, shouldering past the working crewmen. Sighing, the man walked the four paces that the queue had advanced. A few bullets twanged off of the dusty corner of a building a few paces behind her, and she sped up a little, taking another turn, and another, hoping to lose their trail. It has agreed to sponsor the 2002 Hull Rocket Trials, a contest which gives young rocketeers the opportunity to put their creations through their paces. That's why for every 50-year-old man in a ponytail and tight jeans, there's a 50-year-old woman in a Jaeger twinset a few paces behind, pretending she's not with him. Chaim walked a few hundred paces away until he came to a tree. She had no idea of the paces we would put her through or do but by Wednesday she was dancing, kicking up her heels, doing a whole number, a tango thing with the dancers. Cruz barely recovered from a bout of food poisoning to soldier through her PR paces Tuesday. What happened between me and Ian was a storm in a teacup, handbags at 22 paces, and there was no real aggro, beyond the pair of us making our points. It's not uncommon to see executives and engineers helicopter prototypes down to the trail, where a test driver puts the new vehicle through its paces. Three thousand prisoners still remained inside the complex, some of whom shouted abuse through their cell-window grilles while their actor doubles went through their paces. For five days last week they were put through their paces by the coaches and picked up a lot of tips and skills that will no doubt improve their game. I was slightly startled to find myself walking a few paces behind a Guardsman in full Number 1 dress uniform, busby standing proud, and polished brass spurs on his boots. But within twenty paces he was walking across featureless grass. For the tirade had been so rapid, so like the Sten gun that could cut a man in two at 20 paces, that my numbed attention had wandered to the architecture and the decor. Show More Sentences The scientific controversy is beyond me, but I can recognize the fixed stare, the strained voice-throb and the rigid jaw of a madman at a hundred paces. Which is odd because, up until now, she has rather resembled a llama herself, with her slightly shaggy hair, other-worldly expression and dainty, measured paces. She mutters something and takes a few stumbling paces back into the crowd. As soon as his ropes fell loose, he jumped up and away from them, walked a few paces and stopping to rub his arms and wrists where the ropes had been. He paused for a moment, walked a few paces and then came back. Standing fifty paces from me under the trees was an impressive figure. We walked a few paces up and stood in the doorway of a biker bar. The Oedipus stage manager paces anxiously by the footlights. He walked a few paces away and snagged the creel he'd been using. A lightly armed guard followed her at a distance of nearly ten paces. Then one of us scratched out some notes, the other one picked it up and ran with it a few more paces and, in the fullness of time, an essay emerged. I can even walk more than ten paces in three inch heels now, too! The image is designed to make output devices run through their paces by printing a number of challenging images and test patterns. At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces. Cult fitness guru Mr Motivator put children and staff at a Tyneside school through their paces yesterday with one of his energetic workouts. Thoroughbreds can travel medium distances at fast paces, requiring a balance between speed and endurance. Albert the cobby black pony steadily mooched around while Lola was put through her paces. I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces. On a windless day, any flickertail within 200 long paces is destined for that big, grassy field in the sky. A guard dog, if it is killed more than nine paces from the door is not paid for. Show More Sentences Manning will put the car through its paces on unique road courses that include a wide array of road configurations, water walls and skidpads. At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front. He started back two or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectural oaths, and asked what the devil had brought you here? The houses are more than two hundred paces in length, and very well built, being surrounded by strong walls, three times the height of a man. And before Hourigan's chaser is put through his paces, Sidalcea should book her Cheltenham ticket by landing the betfair. When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces. Calves, generally, are born with a thin layer of blubber, which develops at different paces depending on the habitat. Stevenson paces in his dining room in an 1885 portrait by John Singer Sargent. Every 10 minutes, he comes to attention, slopes arms and does a march of 15 paces across the area of the post. Wallace lifted the halfinch Browning off Doris and lumped after them in leagueboot paces, hefting the big weapon onehanded as if it were a toy. Monty, a giant schnauzer, Ginny, a whippet cross, and Porter, an old beardie cross, were put through their paces on live television. Tomorrow, musical director and conductor Mike Brewer will be in Middlesbrough to put singers through their paces and show choirmasters how to pass on the song to local groups. Eight budding high jumpers from the Gateshead Academy of Sport were put through their paces in an hour-long session of hurdles, technical exercises and yoga stretching. Giggs, the next Wales manager in waiting, is pictured above shooting the breeze with Craig Bellamy after watching the team go through their paces in training. Although some Shoguns may never go off-road, I get the feeling it will fall out with you if you don't get it dirty and put it through it's paces once in a while. Both evolved in much the same way, though at different paces. Three of David Pipe's National hopes had a schooling session yesterday morning, with Comply Or Die, The Package and Piraya having been put through their paces. And that it's blossoming so divergently just paces away from another, is a remarkable testament to nature that knows just how to hold together its contrasts. Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left. Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked. Show More Sentences And although she has never had children of her own, she works unstintingly for PACES, an innovative Sheffield school for pupils with cerebral palsy. Examples from Classical Literature A kongoni I killed at 638 paces, and another at 566 paces both exhibited this action of the bullet. The camp of the other consul was near sena, and Hasdrubal's position was about five hundred paces from it. There was a cab rank some fifty paces beyond, with three taxis stationed there. A few paces off, a tiger cat and a rattlesnake were preparing for a contest. The older flight of steps was situated about a hundred paces northward from the present treppe. He unsheathed his tulwar, and when within some twenty paces lowered the point. Kinton had stepped forward six or eight paces, irritated despite his anxiety at the way birken persisted in drifting before him. He compelled the old man to run through his paces, as Holloway criticized each study in miming. By putting spraddle through his paces he ought to be able to reach it before dark. Malcolm rode up to the zemindar, who was separated some forty paces from the ekka. We half wished they might appear, that the horses might quicken their paces. The onagri hurled stones of sixty pounds weight to a maximum distance of two hundred and fifty paces. Fifteen paces distance, visored duelling pistols, and an exchange of bullets to the point of incapacitating one or both parties. York, but soon after thought it would be better to take to cover behind a large tree about fifteen paces in rear of corp. He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga. As she paces to and fro the ugly din fades out of her ears and the ireful red out of her cheeks. A herd of hartebeest came cantering along, the leader pausing within ten paces of the clump where he lay hid. A tuft of groundsel had rooted itself close beside the traction rails a few paces from the waterside. The General, with a frigid nod, moved on a few paces and left them together. Asking us to stand a little back, he applied a slow match to the heap, and retired several paces. Show More Sentences He paces up and down the hall, crowning his dream with wreaths of smoke. The heavyweight pursuer could not get nearer than half a dozen paces. In the meantime the mark at which they were to shoot was set up at sixscore paces distance. Now, when Umslopogaas and Jikiza the Unconquered had come to the cattle kraal, they were set in its centre and there were ten paces between them. With such a weapon a marksman would find no difficulty in lodging a bullet in the eye of a chamois at the distance of two thousand paces. About a hundred paces from me Baleka was staggering along with her arms out like one who has drunk too much beer. There were books and magazines piled up in the window of a stall a few paces down the street. Closer and closer to the dread destroyer he came, until, with a sudden, angry growl, the lion rose from his bed not ten paces from the youth. He saw him turn round fifty paces away and look back at him still standing there. Or, seein' ez they're city folks, the boys would do the square thing with pistols at twelve paces. A plan was lying open before him upon a large stone forming a table, and at some paces from him a crane was in action. Montalvo saw also, and halted his horse within three paces of them. When they were on the street he kept about four paces ahead of her, turning now and then, as if he could hurry her on by the force of his desire. The babbler, who was a few paces in advance, suddenly uttered a cry. I paused involuntarily a hundred paces from the brink of the cataract. Mr Bloom, chapfallen, drew behind a few paces so as not to overhear. The candle in the sconce was six paces away from the guards. There were twenty paces crescendo, a pause, and then twenty diminuendo. At the end of five hundred paces, more or less, they came to a rivulet, which they forded. Below in the great hall he paces to and fro, the red blood mantling his beauteous countenance. Show More Sentences He and D'Arnot stepped back a few paces to be out of the line of fire as the men paced slowly apart. They arrived thus, screened by the lining of the trench, till they came within a hundred paces of the bastion. Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub. D'Artagnan, who had unceasingly maneuvered to gain this point, was not at more than three paces from it. Five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half. I walked the twelve paces, and Mr Osborn placed his principal. Othman did not observe the Vekeel, who was but a few paces distant. The count, dismissing his carriage, followed him about a hundred paces behind. Mell, who went back a few paces to pick them up, and looked at them, as we went on together. Before I had got a dozen paces from the box, an aide-de-camp overtook me. This arcade, at the most, is thirty paces long by two in breadth. North from the tope 300 or 400 paces, king Asoka built the city of Ne-le. The bearers went on for twenty paces, then stopped, putting the bier down on the ground. He walked away some paces, and sat down again doggedly on the grass. When the charging banth was twenty paces from the dead thoat the killer gave vent to its hideous challenge, and with a mighty spring leaped forward to meet it. At some paces from Alice, with his arms uplifted in the air, the carpenter made a gesture as if directing downward a slow, ponderous, and invisible weight upon the maiden. Handel paces it magically, building tension slowly through the three acts to the powerful and moving final scene, in which Bajazet bids farewell to his daughter, Asteria. Having run against a young shopkeeper who was gaping at the crows and who had splashed him, Aramis with one blow of his fist had distanced him ten paces. Aramis pushed his so vigorously that after going back fifty paces, the man ended by fairly taking to his heels, and disappeared amid the hooting of the lackeys. She offered me her hand and I noticed that her handshake included a slight pressure backwards to remind me that I had to walk backwards 3 paces before curtsying again. Show More Sentences They advanced about thirty paces, and then stopped at a small esplanade surrounded with rocks, in which seats had been cut, not unlike sentry-boxes. She called in at George Eliot School and watched as a drama group were put through their paces by teacher Lucy Haywood, directing a scene from Twelfth Night. Whatever the cause, however, the fact remains that on many occasions the boy passed within a few paces of some great lion without arousing more than a warning growl. Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of paces? Words that rhyme with paces What is the adverb for paces? What is the adjective for paces? What is the noun for paces? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Pacers pacers pacer paceman pacemaking pacemakers pacesetter pacesetting pacey pacha pachacuti Pacheco 5-letter Words Starting With p pa pac pace