Get to know Distantly better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Distantly meaning
- At a distance.
- In a distant manner; with detachment.
Using Distantly
- The main meaning on this page is: At a distance. | In a distant manner; with detachment.
- In the example corpus, distantly often appears in combinations such as: distantly related, more distantly, only distantly.
Context around Distantly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Distantly
- In this selection, "distantly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, probably, running, ringing, related, behind and followed stand out and add context to how "distantly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include only very distantly related to and about as distantly related to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "distantly" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with distantly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is only very distantly related to North American sunflowers. (10 words)
They would still be second best, but not quite so distantly. (11 words)
Full disclosure: the author is distantly related via marriage to Yotam Haim. (12 words)
Although injecting RNA into the body cavity of the animal induces gene silencing in most species, only C. elegans and a few other distantly related nematodes can take up RNA from the bacteria they eat for RNAi. (37 words)
But only the latter are a group of closest relatives; the former are numerous independent and ancient lineages which are about as distantly related to each other as each single one of them is to the Passerida. (37 words)
Adults have used unrelated or more distantly related children as a cover to get released after capture inside the US, which was policy before and after Trump’s zero-tolerance approach. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Full disclosure: the author is distantly related via marriage to Yotam Haim.
These are some of the most ancient creatures on Earth, and probably distantly related (and I mean related) to humans.
As it currently stands, most of the nominees are running distantly behind the frontrunners.
It’s actually not that distantly related — as an organism — to Fusarium, which Quorn uses.
Most people attribute the unique color and coat traits of Bengals to specific DNA from its wild and distantly related felid ancestor.
Adults have used unrelated or more distantly related children as a cover to get released after capture inside the US, which was policy before and after Trump’s zero-tolerance approach.
The celebutante isn't just American royalty - she's distantly related to Queen Elizabeth.
It feels like a bell ringing distantly, like the heralding of company in what you thought was a desert or an abyss.
It turns out the leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada and the Bloc Quebecois are relatives - albeit very distantly.
They would still be second best, but not quite so distantly.
This month, Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a statement saying that the genetic testing she had done confirmed that she was distantly of Native American descent.
Although injecting RNA into the body cavity of the animal induces gene silencing in most species, only C. elegans and a few other distantly related nematodes can take up RNA from the bacteria they eat for RNAi.
Both Rafflesia and Amorphophallus are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related.
But only the latter are a group of closest relatives; the former are numerous independent and ancient lineages which are about as distantly related to each other as each single one of them is to the Passerida.
Despite morphological similarities, mitochondrial DNA evidence shows that it is only very distantly related to other sight hounds.
Horizontal gene transfer is invoked to explain how there is often an extreme similarity between small portions of the genomes of two organisms that are otherwise very distantly related.
In other words, it is not an actual variety of the "standard language" or dominant language, but rather a separate, independently evolved but often distantly related language.
In outcrossing, unless there is verifiable genetic information, one may find that all individuals are distantly related to an ancient progenitor.
In the same year, the largest exporter of sugar was Brazil, distantly followed by Thailand, Australia and India.
It is only very distantly related to North American sunflowers.
Common combinations with distantly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: