far cry

How To Use far cry In A Sentence

• He has become gruff and cold, a far cry from the playful, expansive carouser and rabble-rouser of the film's opening scenes. Come and Get It
• He became a Bren gunner and was taught to kill - a far cry from his Christian pacifist background.
• But this intimacy is a far cry from what we knew in the bowling alley. INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
• It was all a far cry from the 1897 Irish Times article which described the course as ‘a rabbit warren below the village, where a golfer requires limitless patience and an inexhaustible supply of balls’.
• The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.
• The grandiose scale of events projected by the pre-event publicity was a far cry from reality.
• TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times. Critic's Corner Wednesday
• An example: If I were to rip out the music portion of Far Cry 2 and replace it with nothing or something completely irrelevant and jarring, is that not going to change the experience of the game? In reply to Clint Hocking and Michael Abbott
• It was the third successive year that she had been hailed as the world's best on the sport's greatest stage, a far cry from her days as a carpenter and joiner.
• Her new career is in catering, a far cry from the committee rooms and party politicking at City Hall in Bradford.