Antonym: close, near. Similar words: distance, assistant, in the distance, instant, constant, instantly, substantial, substantially. Meaning: ['dɪstənt] adj. 1. separated in space or coming from or going to a distance 2. far apart in relevance or relationship 3. remote in manner 4. separate or apart in time 5. apart in space.
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151. It was slightly fuzzy and presumably a distant galaxy.
152. We heard a distant cry of warning.
153. Names of distant cities were called out.
154. He made a pensive sound like a distant bugle.
155. The telescope can discern objects incredibly distant in space.
156. Geographically distant sites are characterized by very different faunas.
157. But Mrs Thomas knows that most of her pupils will go on to college in distant cities, and few return.
158. I even had some distant relatives living here, of the sort that are called cousins, seven times removed.
159. He could not bring his mind to bear on the distant world her handwriting suggested.
160. Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London.
161. Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
162. I sit in my room by candlelight, the distant black silhouettes of land through the window strangely calming.
163. Stretching plus folding lead to mixing by distancing neighboring points and bringing distant points into close proximity.
164. U-turning, he drove off in the direction of the distant city, without so much as another backward glance.
165. Turning off is the A.832 bound for Gairloch, forty-five miles distant on the west coast.
166. The Marines, rifles on shoulders, marched in, matching the cadence of a distant pile driver.
167. These harmonics have the sound of a very clear and distant bell.
168. They are closer to some people, more distant from others.
169. The abbeys and bishoprics established there by distant Rome laid sturdy foundations.
170. Unknown distant future threats are not a reason for spending so much money on the military now.
171. His ship came safely through the storm which wrecked or drove to distant countries so many others.
172. There was complete silence but for the occasional sound of distant traffic.
173. In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones.
173. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
174. The music played in those distant times did not reflect a desire to create melody, far from it.
175. The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians' far distant and antique cousin, the lungfish.
176. She felt a fleeting distant surprise as the cool night air whispered over her skin.
177. This isn't like watching baseball or even a distant cousin.
178. Triangulations on distant hills were attempted, weather records kept, and there was an astronomical observatory.
179. The digital system is then transmitted along the channel of communication to the distant end.
180. Joszef had put capital into the real estate business of a distant cousin.
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