A Roc's best hope was to gain height and distance.

They gained distance, because the Cale did not at first discover the death of their warrior.

We are on the highway again, and I watch them gain distance up ahead.

By the time she got there, it had gained more distance on her and was angling across a wide street.

I gained distance from her, but I knew the woman would catch up.

By cutting straight across, the ape-man would gain considerable distance.

For each, the trick seems to be how to gain distance from any aspect of the scandal.

He sensed that Quinn, still fifteen feet behind him, made the turn easily and even gained distance in the move.

There is an powerful tendency for men to speed up, anxious to gain distance from a pursuing enemy.

To stop and pick someone up would delay us, allow the other ship to gain badly needed distance on us now!