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faraway

adjective as in remote, distant

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Example Sentences

But for these clerks and secretaries, war is a faraway, almost abstract concept.

Demand is highest in places like China and Southeast Asia, where sudden wealth is fueling the urge to travel to faraway places.

Through his art, Bailey drew attention to poverty and despair in faraway places.

Some wandered in a genial trance wearing the faraway, slightly shell-shocked look of the recently colonically irrigated.

The many Nick Palmers, all buried far too young, killed in our faraway wars.

She jist looked at ye wi' her big black e'en sae vexed-like and faraway lookin', an' never spoke hardly.

There were times when she babbled of faraway scenes, of Williamsburg and her old home, of the streets of Norfolk and Richmond.

However, their guide, mentor, and boss had a faraway look in his eye—seemed impatient to get going.

But Molly did not laugh, as he himself had laughed on that faraway, dreamlike evening in his rooms.

As he rode he sang, while he sang he worshiped, but the god he tried to glorify was a dim and faraway mystery.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to faraway, such as: distant, far-flung, far-off, outlying, absent, and abstracted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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