distant
Example Sentences
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In two weeks, the Hong Kong-flagged tanker will have fully unloaded at the Marathon Petroleum terminal and departed again for distant waters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
"She was a royal, but at the same time, a chief priest," says local historian Emmanuel Arkoful, a distant relative.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
By the 1870s his work—often passively comfortable with the standard paysage, or horizontal format, and entranced by distant spectacles like sunsets or mountaintops—began to seem sedate to serious viewers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
"It's mind-boggling that our pineal gland's ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago," concludes Dan-E Nilsson.
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
Jonah looked around, but most of the kids just looked bored and distant, as if this was a particularly dull class at school.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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