[ UK /fˌɑːɹəwˈe‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑɹəˈweɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. very far away in space or time
    the faraway future
    far-off happier times
    faraway mountains
    troops landing on far-off shores
  2. far removed mentally
    a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes
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How To Use faraway In A Sentence

  • He hears of men going to wars, but it is always a distant thing in a faraway place for him.
  • Her pale face had taken on a dreamy glow, a faraway look glazed her eyes.
  • The moon shines on faraway places and love could be crossing continents to find you. The Sun
  • Mars visits your chart of faraway faces and places and people in another land talk about you for two exciting reasons. The Sun
  • An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
  • Her eyes were dreamy and faraway and although she looked into mine I knew it wasn't me he was seeing.
  • Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards. Sunstroked
  • A certain strange, farawayness of thought is apparent, and a grave tenderness that is not quite like anything he had previously written. Edward MacDowell
  • Sometimes he would get that faraway look, like he was a million miles away.
  • Just to test her, for there is something in the animation of her face and the farawayness of the eye that makes you suspect her sincerity, you say: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)
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