Meaning of at/from a distance in English

at/from a distance

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from a place that is not near:
From a distance he looks a bit like Johnny Depp.
We even saw some wolves from a distance.
She claimed to have witnessed the incident from a distance.
With police stationed at a distance, the crowd chanted and shouted angry slogans.
I saw them both but only at a distance.
At a distance, they could almost be sisters.
See also
distance noun (SPACE)
(Definition of at/from a distance from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
 

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