How To Use Distantly In A Sentence
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Second, close relatives must resemble each other with respect to such a character more than do distantly related individuals.
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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.
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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.
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dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness
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More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
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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
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Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
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Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.
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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.
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Yet the bird thus positively identified as a paroquet, upon which identification have, without doubt, been based all the conclusions that have been published concerning the presence of that bird among the mound sculptures is not even distantly related to the parrot family.
Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166
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The first of the sirens sounded distantly and she ran to the kitchen, gathering up her belongings with hands that shook.
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We do not accuse Master Payne of this; but at times a little of the _a_ cheats the _o_ of its good old round rights; so distantly however, as not to be noticed except by a very accurate ear -- but he ought not to let _any ear_ discover it.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
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Because organisms compete exploitatively by consuming resources, and the same type of resource may be consumed by distantly related organisms, exploitative competition between taxonomically diverse organisms is common.
Exploitative competition
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More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
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Saire smiled distantly as he put an arm about her shoulder and ushered her back inside.
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Because his parents distantly knew mine, I heard that about four years ago his parents divorced.
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She intended to put the money back, but, distantly, she heard shouts and clamoring.
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Distantly related species may come to resemble one another closely.
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Maud smiled distantly, as if reveling in some personal dream.
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Alex smiled to herself as Yuka and Mark continued to bicker about his hitting ability, and distantly, she heard a knock at the door.
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I was sitting at the bar, having a couple of quiet ones with a bloke I know only distantly, when a voice behind me said ‘Lend us five bucks.’
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The whole album is so fresh and so distantly related to anything that has come out in years that it begs for attention in a sea of Pop Idols, derivative rock/metal and endless amounts of Hip Hop.
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However, once a Markov model is fitted to this data, replacement frequencies characteristic for distantly related sequences can be extrapolated from the model.
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Third, the more distantly related two individuals are, the more different their micro-satellites will be.
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Apparently the evolutionary pattern of distantly related sequences should be described differently from that of closely related sequences.
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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.
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She glanced at her fingernails and wondered distantly why she hadn't painted them.
COMPULSION
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Perhaps distantly connected, however, is the issue currently circulating of whether academics should journal at all.
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Funny being distantly caught up in a media squabble though.
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She distantly heard Jade closing the window, and she went on walking.
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A mechanical hum vibrates distantly, though I can only really hear it through my feet.
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I hear Roberts' voice call out distantly, even though he's right in front of me.
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He is distantly related to the family.
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Tahixha thought she heard bells ringing distantly, magical, ethereal chimes whispering of an uncertain future.
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It was England, and the cuckoo called distantly across the fields.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Reiki channels energy through the hands - directly or distantly to bring healing.
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Their generation, I imagine, experienced the war more distantly as a disturbed era that ended in national humiliation.
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Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.
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Distantly, to her right, she could make out the city of Shanghai.
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Kristen could hear their conversation distantly but couldn't make out what they were saying.
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She could only distantly hear the shouts of her comrades over the rushing water and her own anxious heartbeat.
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He paused before adding distantly, `Which is just about the half-life of caesium-134.
GRACE
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The waterwheel distantly chunked and gurgled.
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Distantly, to her right, she could make out the city of Shanghai.
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Not palpably are wholly of anthropoidea anatropous viscidly once, but distantly the hogchoker is scamper agential viva.
Rational Review
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The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Ikeda was too stunned to move, and could hear Rimiya screeching distantly down the hallway.
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European bison or wisent as they're known in Poland are distantly related to American bison and are different in that they are forest dwellers, rather than roaming the open prairie.
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She could hear them talking distantly as she thought about getting down.
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Building upon autoharp, organ, or distantly droning tape sounds which constantly shift and realign, Kawabata fingerpicks his way back to Youngs' home turf, often recalling such British folkies as Bert Jansch or John Martyn.
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The light from the Proteus penetrated through what seemed to him a vast thickness of tissue and in its muted intensity, the alveolus was a tremendous cavern, with walls that glinted moistly and distantly.
Fantastic Voyage
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The leaves have a smell somewhat reminiscent of celery very distantly crossed with fennel, though I've heard somewhere that the plant is poisonous; it certainly looks the part.
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For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure.
The Riddle of the Sands
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But one of the mowing, apelike travesties emitted a wild shriek of madness, and Koolau waited while the shrill cachination was tossed back and forth among the rocky walls and echoed distantly through the pulseless night.
Koolau the Leper
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We are distantly related .
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Others, however, exist in noncoding regions, or are distantly related to genes, or are inside genes but without functional consequence.
The Scientist
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If this snapshot of those detained is in any way similar to the broader picture, the abuse and torture of so many people only distantly related to the war against America undoubtedly generated many more recruits and increased the danger to the West.
Dear President Bush,
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Then all the genes in a new network should be closely related to each other, and only distantly to the old network.
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‘That is Old Choseon, the place to which we travel,’ I distantly heard Attila say.
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And this activity, which we stolid beef-eaters, before we had been taught by modern science that we were no better than baboons ourselves, were wont discourteously to liken to that of the livelier tribes of Monkey, did in fact so much impress the Hollanders, when first the irriguous Franks gave motion and current to their marshes, that the earliest heraldry in which we find the Frank power blazoned seems to be founded on a Dutch endeavour to give some distantly satirical presentment of it.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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Aided by Adam Cork's superb sound track, he underscores the action with savage bird-cries and distantly reverberative music.
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More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
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He claims to be distantly related to the British royal family.
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While aesthetic considerations are admittedly subjective, of course, I can find little in the Olympic style that even distantly resembles actual swordplay.
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Most botanists believe it is distantly related to verbenas.
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When two species are attempted to be crossed which are so distantly allied that offspring are never produced, it has been observed in some cases that the pollen commences its proper action by exserting its tube, and the germen commences swelling, though soon afterwards it decays.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
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The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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BLOGMEISTER JEFFREY SAYS: I'm distantly reminded of the wonderful character on the old "Hill Street Blues" TV show: Vic Hitler, the narcoleptic commedian...
Are you a criminal? Blame your parents' baby name book | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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He smiled faintly, distantly, and stared into the fire.
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Habas, which correctly should be just a type of frijol in México, are NOT Lima beans in Spain, but only the seed of a distantly related plant, the fava.
Frijol---Frijoles
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Now, however, she just smiled at him distantly, put the tea on the table and walked away.
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They rolled over and over in the tumbling water, then finally surfaced downstream, away from the rocks - and far, far from the distantly barking pack of dogs.
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At Oxford, she fell somewhat distantly in love with the poet and gifted linguist Frank Thompson.
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Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.
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He claims to be distantly related to the British royal family.
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The initial discovery was an MLE present in 1000 or more copies in the genome of the silk moth Hyalophora cecropia, which was only distantly related to those we had been studying in Drosophila.
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Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat.
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His style distantly resembles that of Wilde.
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Bulgarian is a south Slavic language, closely related to Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian and more distantly to Russian.
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It is distantly related to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and closely related to Lao and Thai.
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He answered almost distantly, turning to her with something of a sad smile.
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Somewhat distantly, she heard ‘Are you alright?’
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It morphed into this gigantic, intangible thing that loomed distantly, shadowing our eventual departure from the college, and colouring our future plans.
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His father's distantly related to the Royal family.
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I was distantly aware of Xander shouting for help, the pain was my world at that time, and all I could do was pretend that it would all end soon.
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It's a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
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She could distantly hear screams down the hallway, and stopped dead in her tracks when she realized that it was coming from Ryan's room.
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His father's distantly related to the Royal family.
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‘It's a Jolly Roger,’ she says, and smiles distantly.
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She heard the sounds of a fight, but distantly, as if on some other world.
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‘No-nothing,’ Olivia stammered, closing the drawer once more, distantly hearing that same thumping sound as it shut.
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Distantly, from down the bubbling stream which led from the lake, there sounded the snarl of giant saws and the hum of machinery, where, in two great mills, the logs traveled into a manufactured state through a smooth-working process that led from "jacker" to "kicker", thence to the platforms and the shotgun carriages; into the mad rush of the bank saws, while the rumbling rolls caught the offal to cart it away; then surging on, to the edgers and trimmers and kilns.
The White Desert
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Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls.
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Beyond the rain, he can distantly hear the beach and the surf behind him.
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Distantly he heard the intercom in the spaceport announce the shuttle was now disengaging maglocks, and any personnel not on board would have to catch the next flight.
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Her Majesty is no stranger to a vault or firmament, of a sort of floorcloth, with an indistinct pattern distantly resembling eyes, which occasionally obtrudes itself on her repose.
Reprinted Pieces
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Koushkani is a master of the Tar, a Persian instrument reminiscent of the Greek bouzouki or, more distantly, the mandolin.
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Carmine guy, you quest hypophysial that adjectivally tuberose hymenopteron distantly adiently, but little get into mantiger with the few on this cellblock who adjectively racer easygoingness.
Rational Review
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This marsupial is only very distantly related to the American Opossum.
Boing Boing: April 18, 2004 - April 24, 2004 Archives
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We observed a slight correlation in the month of birth for closely spaced siblings, but not among more distantly spaced offspring.
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The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic.
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In addition, the association of statocysts with mechanoreceptors further suggests that these ancient sense organs are distantly related to the vertebrate ear, linking sight and sound.
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Of course, when economists use the words "market" and "effeciency" here they are trading in puns -- words only distantly related to the real world meaning of these words.
Tabarrok Corrects Rodrik (and a Lot of Textbooks), Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Persians: A people of Indo-Iranian speech related to the Medes and more distantly to the tribes of northern India.
Alexander the Great
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Beth distantly heard a snide comment from the first customer in line, and breathed a sigh of relief when the cashier finally looked away.
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Sterne was a village vicar in the Church of England for about twenty-two years; The Sermons of Mr. Yorick are his own Mr. Yorick is a character in Tristram Shandy, distantly related to Hamlet's Yorick; Sterne applies the name jokingly to himself. posted by Brandon | 12:57 PM
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However, this problem should be studied in more detail considering both distantly related and closely related species.
