How to Use distant in a Sentence

distant

adjective
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  • Rather, the breeze probably carried the smell from some distant point.
    — Lizette Ortega, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
  • Yet the filmmaking remains distant enough to allow all the subjects the time and space to tell the story.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • The house with the socially distant real estate agent wasn't a fit — and neither were the dozen-plus houses he's seen since.
    — Brianna Crane, Axios, 27 July 2024
  • Microsoft is a very distant second, with about 7%, and Google Cloud accounts for the rest.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • Our distant descendants will still be living with the planetary changes that humans have wrought in a single lifetime.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Metastatic lung cancer develops primarily in the lungs and later spreads to distant organs and tissues.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 28 July 2024
  • Instead, the women tended to have distant relatives at other cemeteries.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Reynolds talks about sports being a singular connection with his emotionally distant father.
    — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Until the 2000s, astronomers hadn’t spotted many TNOs—especially not the most distant ones.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
  • But a lot of the more distant fire is done with blanks on set.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • These trips offer the fastest way to see distant parts of the world with the most comfort.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Someone as distant as a third cousin might do for a match.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Why can’t wildlife watchers catch a glimpse of the russet beasts on a distant vista?
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The dry weather regime could be a distant memory by the spring.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But The Beat comes in a fairly distant second place, with 479 weeks spent on the tally.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Webb scans the universe from a more distant perch, 1 million miles away.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 July 2023
  • The idea that people only come to Venice at a specific time of year is part of the distant past.
    — Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
  • In the film, a young man visits his distant father in one of the world’s most lavish resorts.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • Great waves dashing against the distant breakwater shook the metal decks by the shore.
    — Tim Hornyak, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Pence is mired in single digits, fighting for a distant third place with the rest of the growing field.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
  • The good, good news though is that in a week or so, this will all hopefully be but a distant nightmare.
    — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But no starters have been named yet and a depth chart remains somewhat distant.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • That was seen as a distant prospect until the recent eruption.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The United States is a distant second, with 17 percent.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Ukraine’s prospects for membership before the war were distant at best.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This is how light can travel from a distant star all the way to your eyes on Earth—with mostly nothing in between.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Gene therapy to address the disease's root cause was a distant dream.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
  • About 20 distant relatives used the site, which narrowed the suspect pool.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • That course is designed to simulate the terrain of the moon, Mars and other distant space bodies.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Webb is showing us many new, distant galaxies – so there's a lot of new science to be done!
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023

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