How To Use Distant In A Sentence

By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
Vibrations from instruments such as the talking drum or the didgeridoo, or even from foot-stomping dances, may have spoken volumes to distant, unshod listeners.
In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.

My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
Those two weak boys are distant relations.
Even the plural in their name seems to make them extend farther into a distant romantic haze.
Electoral victory is just a distant mirage.
At night, down on the water, they seem just beyond grasp, unreachably distant, like the past itself.
I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
Those glory days are a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
The sea stretched away to the distant horizon.
The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.
But if it spreads to other distant organs, the cells have taken a trunk road through the blood or lymph system. The Sun
distant events
In Ireland and Great Britain, sacred wells derive their distant origins from megalithic and Celtic times.
Cirrus clouds indicated the distant approach of a trough, both in the surface and upper air.
He was so distant and reserved now, but I had no idea how he had been before.
Distant fireworks could be heard popping off.
This metal tower is used to relay television signals to distant villages.
The energy crisis would be a distant memory. The Sun
Of course, his most effective weapons are his boomerangs, which he can use to take out distant enemies, break items, or glide from heights.
In the not too distant future one morning all her friends are going to wake up to find that her status is six unopened milk bottles. The Sun
The teeth of our distant ancestors can yield a surprising amount of evidence about their lives and deaths. Times, Sunday Times
He is a distant relation of mine.
Ordinary working with unusual attitude to complete, simple questions to use a comprehensive thinking to decision, the matter will look at the way, distant ideal rely on real efforts to achieve.
Every morning I'd check my pigeonhole in case the letter had finally arrived telling me that a distant relative had died and I was now the heir to a title and a vast estate.
A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
But the centenary of her death seemed to me the perfect time to re-examine her life, particularly because she is a distant relative. Times, Sunday Times
He's a distant cousin of mine.
The energy crisis would be a distant memory. The Sun
The telescope can discern objects incredibly distant in space.
He hears of men going to wars, but it is always a distant thing in a faraway place for him.
Second, close relatives must resemble each other with respect to such a character more than do distantly related individuals.
It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant.
The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer.
The foreign visitors came from a distant country.
To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.
Its symphonic narrative revolves six characters through six ages of man - from the 19th century to distant millennia - then brings them full circle as each one completes their interrupted history.
As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots.
Ordinary working with unusual attitude to complete, simple questions to use a comprehensive thinking to decision, the matter will look at the way, distant ideal rely on real efforts to achieve.
I was pleasantly surprised to find my ingenious, distant relative had a setup I had never imagined.
Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the main land, which was about five miles distant. Chapter 19
Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors.
It may derive, distantly, from8 the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the hunt and of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck.
Unhappily, we fear that such a consummation is still far distant. Disunion in the United States
The digital system is then transmitted along the channel of communication to the distant end.
The milking machines thump like a distant drum. Times, Sunday Times
Aria nodded and looked away, as if in distant thought.
Ah, but voters are fickle and rarely take into consideration the desires of distant princelings (or columnists, for that matter).
And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
The woman in our distant ancestry who carried the mitochondrial chromosomes from which all the human mitochondrial chromosomes of the present time are descended. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Through his open window came the faint, distant beating of the sea; a bird flew past him, a white flash of light; some one was singing the refrain of a Cornish "chanty" -- the swing of the tune came up to him from the garden, and some of the words beat like little bells upon his brain, calling up endless memories of his boyhood. The Wooden Horse
Here's hoping, that, someday in the not too distant future, the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never more in real life.
Rome lay too far from the vulnerable frontiers; Constantinople occupied a position about equidistant from the Germans on the lower Danube and the Persians on the Euphrates. Early European History
A near - sighted person cannot focus accurately on distant objects.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
The time we spent together is now a distant memory.
He has been distant, hostile, and completely in the thrall of consumer groups. Times, Sunday Times
Eve quickened her pace as she heard the distant roar of an engine pulling up into the driveway.
_Si, si, si_!" he cried, nodding quickly and pointing right away into the distant valley. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
Ordinary working with unusual attitude to complete, simple questions to use a comprehensive thinking to decision, the matter will look at the way, distant ideal rely on real efforts to achieve.
All princes had to face the problems posed by distant and turbulent borderlands.
He was a cold man, aloof and distant.
By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle.
Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
To me, they hide in the depths of your soul; be a distant dream, every dream will exceed your goal.
Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers.
An extended family tree will grow to include many distant cousins.
Flipping unbelievable, the Queen would rob the coffers of schools and hospitals so that her tawdry hangers on and distant relatives don't have to pay their way Grr If they are grace and favour, let the residents of them pay if Her Maj ain't got the dough but bollocks to us paying it, we don't pay our taxes so chinless hooray henries and Chlamydia Camilla's can have a ball at our expense. The Independent - UK RSS Feed
Father-of-two Ivan, who lived modestly, struck rich 10 years ago when a distant cousin left him ￡8 million.
Geri had a distant look in her eyes.
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
He could tell from the distant look in Seira's eyes that the other boy had been struck with a sudden inspiration for a piece.
The product of another transformed phylum, this was a chondrichthyan, a distant relation of a shark. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
Leicester and tries are becoming only distant cousins at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
She must be wise but impulsive, empathic yet distant.
Conversely, if genetic exchange occurs between the two lineages in sympatry, interlineage populations should exhibit much less differentiation than should geographically distant NW populations.
He had overcast on a small lake and put his rig into a tree on the distant bank. Times, Sunday Times
It is also appropriate to investigate for metastatic infection or distant sources of hematogenous dissemination of infection such as infected aneurysm, skin lesions, septic phlebitis, and osteomyelitis.
And so she did, watching in quiet disassociation as the sun began to rise over the distant trees, lighting the sky on fire with a symphony of reds and oranges.
He became emotionally distant from his friends and family after the illness.
It is reasonable to expect that contiguous homilies would be more alike than distant ones.
Apes may be distant cousins of humans.
‘Roger, roger,’ Lily replied, just as distant-sounding as ever.
Her mother was a distant figure, and throughout her childhood Jane nourished a desperate love for her that she felt was unrequited.
Ordinary working with unusual attitude to complete, simple questions to use a comprehensive thinking to decision, the matter will look at the way, distant ideal rely on real efforts to achieve.
A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
Only Avens made a pass at her, and when she made plain what her answer was he grew cold and distant.
My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas. Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
In the evening and at night, when the farmers came out to plough, or to sow or reap their wheat, the country hummed with activity like a distant industrial town.
Further to the east and the west the observers are a few thousand miles more distant, putting them beyond the vertex of the umbral cone, so that they witness only an annular eclipse.
And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars.
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
Dombey, exulting in the long – looked – for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch – chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Dombey and Son
A bosom friend afar brings distant land near.
Eventually it allowed the emergence of institutions not too distant from our own political and legal understanding of the term.
We spent a few minutes yesterday using trig to work out how far away the most distant vapour trail was.
Their musical directors are Thomas and Brenda Gunn, distant relations of our dear Pastor.
Her voice was the pearliest, most musical, and yet most distant of things. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
Books are unreadable as soon as the light of the sun disappears behind the distant mountains. Times, Sunday Times
Those who stand far distant from it might find it easy to pronounce upon her fate.
In a distant past, when there were vast territories still unmapped, there were secret places everywhere, though, I imagine, few of them held nostalgic charms for those who stumbled on them accidentally on their way to somewhere else.
She is a distant cousin of mine.
The future : so distant and yet so quick to arrive. Times, Sunday Times
We hope to create more jobs in the not too distant future .
All I could hear were the birds, a stream and the distant sounds of those sheep.
Then, in a distant Missionary way he asked them certain questions, — as why little Joe had that hole in his frill, who said, Pa, Flopson was going to mend it when she had time, — and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said, Great Expectations
[ARCA LIENOSA] lines of growth distinct, giving a striate appearance; the ligament area is marked by strong lines diverging from beneath the umbo; umbones distant; inside margin strongly sulcate or ribbed. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
I have lately been led to reflect a little, (for, now that I am growing old, my work has become [word indecipherable] special) on the artificial checks, but doubt greatly whether such would be advantageous to the world at large at present, however it may be in the distant future. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
The noises of the performance were now a distant murmur, but other than that it was completely silent.
It happened in the distant past.
The film, in color, opens with a view from above of waves breaking on a beach; a distant mountain rises out of the mist.
Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin.
In the distant future, humanity has reached the stars and hangs out with alien races. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, he might appear distant and archaic but he is the heir to the throne and one day it will be his.
Our priority is to position ourselves at a point equidistant from all predetermined boundaries.
We could hear the rumble of distant thunder.
The pair travel in an orbit from fourteen to forty-two times the radius of the Earth's orbit; so that when at apastron they are three times as distant from each other as when at periastron. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
It's these tiniest details - the uneasy click of indeterminable percussion, the distant half-heard rumble of thunder from a distance - that make this music so worth hearing.
Harry boarded it and the man followed, selecting a seat several rows distant but facing Harry down the open carriage.
But as I approached, so the branches beneath which they played gradually disparted, and I saw not far distant from them one sitting who evidently had these jocund boys in charge. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
The aliens, named the Kursk, wanted to install giant antennae at equidistant points around earth and they wanted us to hook our datacables into them. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
From his Bolton home, almost equidistant from the two UK operations, Mr Cox has literally been at the centre of developments.
A breeze blows in from the distant sea and flutters both the terrace curtains and the gauzier material around the crib. Ilium
It is expedient to resume the practice, which existed in the not so distant past, of exchanging military specialists, scientific collectives, and major experts in the naval sphere.
When you find a picture that looks like you, it's step one to discovering a distant branch of your family tree. The Sun
This sort of thing was sorted out on the firing butts, where the crew could park a fighter and have it blast away at a target two or three hundred yards distant.
It assumes humans can abstract themselves from reality and go romping through history looking for the all-powerful distant cause that will explain each and every aspect of our current situation.
She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
But was that gossamer-like illusion, lying upon the far horizon, the magic of nicotian, or the vague presence of distant heights? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
Before the invention of the steam generator, when the dodgem and the chair-o-plane were but distant rumbles in the future, this is what we did for a fun day out.
The running lights of ships tracked silently down the Channel, outbound for tropic islands in distant seas. CORMORANT
The final mechanism of inequality, distantiation, is the most subtle of all: the mechanism or channel most difficult to pin down morally and politically. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
Not so long ago, all six would have been busy at this hour fetching water from distant wells and lugging it back to the small subsistence farms, known as shambas, that dot rural western Kenya.
They lived in the depths of distant forests and held an annual convention near Chartres. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
As his voice resonated, mingling with the call of a distant koel, the mystery of the majestic edifice stood out.
The distant object of his affections is Caroline.
When you find a picture that looks like you, it's step one to discovering a distant branch of your family tree. The Sun
He gradually shuffled out of our lives, becoming more remote and more distant. Times, Sunday Times
Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
Two distant percussive thuds, like a car door being slammed, sound from across the river and two more shells barrel overhead with a low growl.
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness
The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate.
Presbytero Johan. habitant subfusci sunt, in Zeilan et Malabar nigri, aeque distantes ab Aequatore, eodemque coeli parallelo: sed hoc magis mirari quis possit, in tota America nusquam nigros inveniri, praeter paucos in loco Quareno illis dicto: quae hujus coloris causa efficiens, coelive an terrae qualitas, an soli proprietas, aut ipsorum hominum innata ratio, aut omnia? Anatomy of Melancholy
The air is quiet and perfectly still, and he hears the song of a nightbird somewhere distant. Orbit
The economic precariousness forced a substantial number of men to leave for distant lands as migrant workers.
These states are more comfortable with a distant hegemon with an honorable history of restraint than a local hegemon with a persistent history of expansionism.
The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again. History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
By now, all that sweet music Buffett and Clayton had made together was a distant memory.
In the distant, dinful town just a little drink to drown Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Clearing its electronic throat, the ship's communi-cator snapped him forcefully back from nebulous realms inhabited by memories of distant dreams and fading visitations. The Chronicles of Riddick
More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
The chirps of the small garden birds sounded distant.
A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path. Again
Her eyes had a distant look in them that told Jake she was thinking about amber and intaglio. AMBERBEACH
Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
The first of three pivotal scenes in this film is a moment of intimacy between Jack and Tyler when they confide that their fathers are distant and disengaged.
The visual effect of distantiation is that you shed subjective involvement and so gain information (alt. lose information).
Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself. HOME COMFORTS
The announcement last year of a possible North West assembly had to be held in an hotel in Daresbury in Cheshire in order to be roughly equidistant between Liverpool and Manchester and avoid offending the residents of either.
May be it is just that breaking moment when computer games really coming to mainstream and that's why people are more sensitive to that, especially ones that are not part of that movement and distantiate from computer games. Nelfs on Pandora
A distant cousin recently let something slip which gave the game away. The Sun
I am, in short, thankful for private-property markets that are the main driving force behind these and many other anti-pollutants -- a force so powerful that we today enjoy the incredible luxury of being able to worry, should we so choose, about very distant and very speculative forms of environmental problems such as species loss and global warming. Earth Day -some cogent counterpoints to the standard green koolaid
Ponting seems to suggest that he is a lone piper skirling on a distant hill.
In the not too distant future.When the pup had grown lanky and 26)frolicsome—the wolf would return to the mountainside.
The still better known _Chondrus crispus_, the Irish moss or carrageen of our cookery-books, has likewise its apparent though more distant representative in _Chondritis_, a Lower Silurian algæ, of which there seems to exist at least three species. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
The myth says that he led a small band of followers to seek their fortune in distant lands.
He was her distant relative, as was everyone else on the island, come to think of it.
A lakeboat's bridge is on the foc'sle head as it would appear, and the spearpole in the lowered position helps the wheelsman to line up the range markers and any other distant object?
He was perhaps the only dog in the world to actually flee into a distant room when the mailman approached.
There was a whisper of whips through it, a distant whisper.
Why was she on this distant planet, trying to discover how the Althosian civilization was destroyed?
his father's cold and distant demeanor inhibited him emotionally
This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten mettall, their steales and clawes armed. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
We eased our way through the crowd and into the park which after only a few paces seemed many leagues distant from the City surrounding it.
Once , in the dim and distant past, I live in here.
He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
They lived in the depths of distant forests and held an annual convention near Chartres. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
The teeth of our distant ancestors can yield a surprising amount of evidence about their lives and deaths. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't take long for the action, adventure, and adrenaline to pull you into the distant valleys with "their spidery networks … of unseen trails" where you will begin to the feel "bandoleers of ammunition digging into" Mellas's neck, and the "mud sucking on his boots. The Book on Vietnam
There is a distant but unmistakable clattering sound that is incongruous to the refined air of the robust cabin. Times, Sunday Times
One is to construct extra high-voltage transmission lines to transmit electricity generated at mine-mouth power plants to distant load centres.
Ambassadors were still providing a way for distant civilizations to meet and compare one another. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
Sundry distant relatives, most of whom I hardly recognized, turned up for my brother's wedding.
By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle.
With an eager, springy step, distantly reminiscent of a shopwalker heading a procession of customers, with a touch of the style of the winner in a walking-race to Brighton, the once slow-moving butler led the way to the headmaster's study. The Head of Kay's
In any event it will be a vision of bow the profit is going to be achieved in the distant future.
India proposes a seaward median / equidistant line approach for determining the maritime boundary.
I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
The reality of independence was distant from the hopes they had had.
I offer this so you understand that I don't speak from some distant place, as a visitor, as a tourist.

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