How to Use faraway in a Sentence

faraway

adjective
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  • My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
  • Travel back through the mists of time to the faraway land of 2019.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The stress in the Middle East has helped raise the cost of shipping even on faraway routes.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • At least not for one of the long and faraway trips that have been my routine for decades.
    — Ann Hermes, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Kostikova would just sit and listen to the sounds of her faraway home.
    — National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The driver, who had a faraway look in his eyes, moved in slow motion.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 19 May 2021
  • The Wordy Traveler offers the best of both – books and faraway places.
    — Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Sometimes the faint sound of an engine—a truck or a tank on the faraway mountain road—but that was rare.
    — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Sitting in that faraway room in Pittsburgh, Sandy was at a loss.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • The gas tragedy is a faraway one to them, consigned to history.
    — Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
  • That faraway shore’s not looking too far for Jonathan Groff!
    — Luke Chinman, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • And perhaps none are more worried for them than the faraway women who could have been them - the sisters, the cousins, the friends.
    — chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • For most non-South Asians, caste practice in the U.S. is a faraway and foreign concept.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The full Moon of the 5th tunes you in to dreams, faraway places and vision quests—so ignore petty annoyances that are in the air.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Word of this gold-rich land spread and spawned tall tales from faraway lands, like the ancient Greek myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Make lemon bars in some faraway place from lemons foraged off the side of Mulholland.
    — Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The world is your oyster, and it’s filled with amazing, faraway places that are begging you to visit them!
    — Julia Shiplett, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The country felt like this faraway land where many Americans fought and died.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Let this book’s beauty transport you to this unique, faraway land from the comfort of your living room.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Many of us have traveled and yearned to bring home some element of a faraway place that inspired us.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Every now and then, a ship loaded with youngsters sailed from faraway Athens bound for Crete.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • War, plague and fire in England—vividly evoked—mean that the seizure of faraway rebels falls off the government’s agenda.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Despite their fears, there is empathy in the camps for the suffering from a war in faraway Ukraine.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • For a faraway flavor twist, try adding hot Madras curry powder and a pinch of turmeric.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • You may be called upon to start a new life in a faraway place or decide to return to school to pursue a new degree.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Get the lighting just right, put on your favorite outfit and shoot a sweet video message to send to your faraway sweetheart.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This is just as fun for a remote gathering with faraway friends.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Daykin South side food trucks The soundtrack to most city parks includes the ping of a bouncing basketball, the tinny reverb of a faraway stereo or the sizzle of a grill fired up for sausages.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • On our way to the grocery store or the post office or a faraway vacation destination.
    — William Earl, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024

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