paces

Synonyms

tempo footstep foots rates Marches KS

Phrases with the word

handbags at ten paces put someone through their paces

Examples

After walking apart ten paces, Buck fires before the signal, grazing McKay's forehead. Source: Internet

Act II Private Willis, on night guard duty, paces outside the Palace of Westminster and muses on political life ("When all night long a chap remains"). Source: Internet

A league was considered to be the distance a man could walk in one hour, and the mile (from mille, "meaning thousand") consisted of 1,000 passus (paces, five feet, or double-step). Source: Internet

" A typical medieval account is given by Giovanni Villani (1300): He relates that "it measured eighty miles round, and it was already 4,000 paces high, or convert and 1,000 paces thick, and each pace is three of our feet." Source: Internet

BRITAIN's Best Home Cook will return to BBC One tonight at 8pm as the judges put the cooks through their paces in a brand new series. Source: Internet

Bauchi, christened on February 3, 1976, ranking 5th in surface area of Nigeria’s constituent states, has experienced different paces of physical development – some fast, some solid, some wobbly and some stagnant. Source: Internet