1.   Have a student use one of the yardsticks to measure the distance.

2.   Rabbits and other hunted animals do not need to measure distance accurately.

3.   Astronomers measure distance by calculating how far toward the red end of the spectrum light from an object has shifted.

4.   Before attempting to replace this style faucet, carefully measure distance between the tailpieces from the center of one to the center of the other.

5.   Culturally, the distance can be measured in light-years.

6.   Distance is measured by how far a person can walk before the sun sets.

7.   Estimating the expansion rate of the universe is a notoriously difficult problem because of the lack of a single yardstick by which all distances can be measured.

8.   Following the major-league rule book, all distances were measured from the apex at the back of home plate.

9.   Hubble was measuring distance using pulsating stars called Cepheids.

10.   I walked to school every day, probably about six blocks now as I came to measure distance later.