How to Use distant in a Sentence

distant

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The United States is a distant second, with 17 percent.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • At this rate, Nevin will make the 14-game losing streak a distant memory.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • On a late autumn day, as naked stems of dwarf birch nod away from a warm breeze, a distant flash of antler reveals the object of our search.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Like an airplane on a glidepath, the iPhone 16 series is there in the distant sky, slowly coming in to land.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Many from the distant past consisted of calls to attend the church of your preference.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Ukraine’s prospects for membership before the war were distant at best.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Much of the film is a chase story, as Mufasa and Taka flee the outsiders and head off in search of a distant, possibly mythical land called Milele.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Winning the Premier League and Champions League still looks distant.
    — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024

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