far-flung

How To Use far-flung In A Sentence

• And the club has been receiving messages of support from far-flung corners of the globe.
• On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
• Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
• Once upon a time the peasant had been incorporated into the community as a full member, with all the far-flung consequences we considered earlier.
• 'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens). An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
• Newspapers originated in early modern Europe as periodic merchants' letters, circulating information about prices, shipments, and commodities among far-flung commercial entrepôts.
• Its production on the moon would enable rockets to re-fuel on their way to far-flung corners of the earth's solar system.
• Some companies with the wherewithal to avoid taxes by magicking profits to some far-flung destination do precisely that. Times, Sunday Times
• But the walls aren't just a protective cocoon for far-flung outposts; ballistic windows offer protection while giving Marines a line of sight and the ability to fire downrange, meaning McCurdy's Armor can be deployed as both a defensive stronghold as well as a tactical firing position. Neatorama
• In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park.