He eased back on the stick, allowing the distance between mothership and drones to increase slowly.

This scale allows the distance to the object to be estimated if the object height is known.

About 14 years later, the shell ejected by the nova event was detected, which allowed the distance to be computed.

There was less traffic here and he allowed the distance between them to lengthen another hundred yards.

She slowed down, allowed the distance between the two vessels to increase.

Baedecker fell five yards behind his son but refused to allow the distance to widen farther.

Exhaustion wrapped itself shroudlike around what he'd seen, dulling the immediacy, allowing him the distance to look at it again.

The interferometric and spectroscopic observations allow the distance to the system to be determined independently of other methods.

Shigeru Ban, an architect who lives in Tokyo, has not allowed himself the safe distance enjoyed by our remote controllers.