[
US
/ˌɫɔŋˈdistəns/
]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call
a long-distance transmission line
a long-distance call
a long-distance operator -
covering a long distance
a long-distance runner
a long-distance freight train
she ran off with a long-distance truck driver
How To Use long-distance In A Sentence
- Starting with this, the article analyzes military requirement of LFT (Limited Long-distance Firepower of Tank) from fighting task, fighting action and battlefield control.
- Like the Hawaiian Islands, the tropical Marquesas Islands are extremely isolated and all flora and fauna present are the result of long-distance colonization and in situ evolution for thousands to millions of years. Marquesas tropical moist forests
- To enable long-distance communication, many telecommunication systems transmit radio signals via the ionosphere.
- There is also large-scale downstream pollution caused by long-distance transport of industrial food.
- The difference will be exacerbated because birds, the most well-represented endotherms in the analysis, demonstrate constrained phenological plasticity due to photoperiodic induction of gonad maturation and migration, especially for long-distance migrants. The Guardian World News
- No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister's stamina as, politically, a long-distance runner.
- It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
- A coalition of cable television and long-distance carriers predicts it will take until next spring.
- Fork right at the long-distance bus station.
- I lifted the receiver with caution, listening for the white noise of a long-distance connection.