English example sentences with "paces"

They stepped a few paces forward.

When any young man came within a hundred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free.

An animal lives, senses, moves itself; is born, dies, is nourished and grows; stands or sits, or lies or paces.

Having pursued the soldiers of the enemy for eight thousand paces, they turned back to the camp with many captives.

Ziri walked a few more paces.

Fifteen or twenty paces ahead of me, an animal dashed across the road. I just managed to brake in time.

The House of Mothers here consists of a clean, one-story building in the regional hospital's compound, just a few paces from the maternity ward.