faraway
Example Sentences
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Scammers can call you from some faraway location and make the number coming up on your phone appear to be your bank’s headquarters in the city where you live.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026
You might be tempted, with every faraway look in Christian Petzold’s subtly moving “Miroirs No. 3,” to hope for that soothing, enlightened release so often served as catharsis in tales of loss and healing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
So, if the group planted a flag on a faraway issue, I could probably go with it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
"She would say: 'These are our relatives who live in faraway lands. We are all one people,'" Simon recalled at the annual Arctic Frontiers conference this week in Norway, shortly before her trip to Nuuk.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
I play the song about the girl trapped in the tower again, and Abuela gets a faraway look in her eyes.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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