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

Most practices are resold to another PE firm within three years, putting a neighborhood optometry or gastroenterology practice through a succession of faraway new owners, all looking to sell for more to the next one.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 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 try, but I don’t hear anything but a garbage truck and a car alarm, the faraway screeching of wheels down train tracks, the rattle of a bar storefront finally closing.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon