faraway

Example Sentences

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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

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

No matter how the children called to it and waved, the faraway sheep only blinked and chewed its cud.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood