This page shows Distant in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like remote or close. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Distant in a sentence
Related words
Distant meaning
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
- Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).
Example sentences (20)
It comes at a time of spiking violence within the occupied West Bank and as peace talks are a distant reminiscence.
An adventurer just took a lonely walk through what is left of these towns that have been lost in a distant past.
Furthermore, a 2021 rebranding effort was looked down upon as being much too distant from the brand’s original styling.
Blewitt is a third cousin of President Biden, whose distant ancestors emigrated from County Mayo during the 19th century.
And it's now a very straight shot for us to become an investment grade company in the not-so-distant future.
As blurry as this zoomed-in gameplay was, many felt they could glean information from the distant visuals.
Balmy summer days might seem a distant prospect right now but next June the island will become a party venue for music fans.
A former president who didn’t show at the debate and the guy in distant second place in the polls also are Kremlin-appeasers.
In the meantime, we were clueless of the events transpiring at 770 Eastern Parkway, in distant New York.
I wonder if some folks already have bolted to another location, given this possibility, however distant.
But all of that is weeks away, too distant to consider for a team that has maintained a “one game at a time” mentality all season.
Leprosy was long a rarity in the U.S., with most cases affecting travelers to distant countries with high rates of the disease, CNN.
In May last year, government again pledged efforts to complete the 250-space parking lot would start “in the not too distant future”.
It has been difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities – but now light bent around distant galaxies has offered a clue.
A survey of distant quasars gravitationally lensed by closer galaxies calculated the Hubble value at six different redshift distances.
Joey Logano won the race and his second title, while Bell finished a distant 10th in the race and third in the championship standings.
Many buyers were present from the locality and distant parts, and a good clearance was effected.
Nancy took every opportunity to discover her family’s genealogy and meet with distant relatives.
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the race, Hon. Tolorunjuwon Faniyi managed to poll 6421 votes to come distant third.
Nick, while not Black, could thank his distant ancestors from the east for his rich brown skin.
Common combinations with distant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the distant 20×
- distant future 13×
- distant second 13×
- more distant 11×
- in distant 10×
- distant memory 10×
- of distant 9×
- distant past 8×
- distant third 8×
- distant relatives 7×
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