Distant

//ˈdɪstənt//

"Distant" in a Sentence (15 examples)

We can see distant objects with a telescope.

Distant things look blurred.

We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.

Watching television changes the role of the fans by making their participation more passive and distant.

You need not have come all the way from such a distant place.

The new boy is distant because he does not know us.

Something looking like a UFO made a sudden turn then disappeared into the distant sky.

An orphan at three, he was brought up by a distant relative.

The moon is distant from the earth.

Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.

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We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]

Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.

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