How to Use distant in a Sentence

distant

adjective
  • In the distant past, dinosaurs roamed the earth.
  • The day I left home is now a distant memory.
  • 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
  • Those days, and that belief, seemed quite distant in the summer of 2021.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • Femke Bol of the Netherlands was a distant second in 52.27.
    — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • Imaging a day in the not-too-distant future when Utah will no longer be home to the Great Salt Lake.
    — Bethany Baker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Before Times might seem a distant memory for the Chiefs and their fans.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s one place where Marvel could reveal some of the plans for the not-too-distant future.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2022
  • 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
  • But the first pass was distant enough that the signal would be too low to stand out above the background noise in the detectors.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • At some point in the not-too-distant future, Musk will have to stop talking and start acting.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • That was seen as a distant prospect until the recent eruption.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But a combined 11-11 record the last two years has made that championship feel more and more distant.
    — al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Heavy snow may fall in one spot while the sun shines a mile or two distant in either direction.
    — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The school felt like a community, the car drop-off line a distant nightmare.
    — Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex by a protruding nose that is separate from the upper jaw.
    — Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Traveling to distant regions also deepens our sense of awe, which can be transformative for both the body and mind.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025

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