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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181. Eventually it allowed the emergence of institutions not too distant from our own political and legal understanding of the term.
182. Roberts's evidence suggests that there has been considerable variation historically in how far support structures extend to more distant kin.
183. Such a right instilled trust in the written statements by carriers and encouraged consignees to deal with distant and unknown sellers.
184. The doctor nods to the anesthesiologist, and suddenly things be-come very distant.
185. Only Avens made a pass at her, and when she made plain what her answer was he grew cold and distant.
186. She thought of her father - that grey and distant figure associated only with anchovy paste and a rustling newspaper.
187. When she was a young woman, she could hear distant laughter down long corridors, as she lay in her bed.
188. Sometimes they also flew high, fast, and straight as if they had appointments at distant destinations.
189. She pressed against the counter edge as the distant motor hummed closer.
190. It sounded so comfortable and reassuring, like the drone of a distant mowing machine through the class-room window at school.
191. On certain nights all the ghosts do battle and the distant echoes of their screams and war-cries are born on the wind.
192. Explorers of distant countries found other plants which produced curious mental effects.
193. Within a few years the improved navigability of the river Don enabled them to compete even more successfully in distant markets.
194. A distant cry can be heard issuing from a classroom.
195. Distant bodies like the Pleiades were recorded with great clarity.
196. In any event it will be a vision of bow the profit is going to be achieved in the distant future.
197. High-tech digital cameras are used extensively in astronomy to capture dim light from distant galaxies.
198. Another sensor, a sonar-like apparatus,[sentencedict.com] uses echolocation to detect both distant pressure disturbances and changes of flow patterns nearby.
199. The once top-rated Cosby Show suddenly seemed awfully distant in time.
200. The question whether it would ever be right to move to one at some distant date is separate.
201. Multiplayer games are also available, allowing viewers to compete against distant friends or relatives on the network.
202. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon
203. Let us begin with a balance-sheet of these opportunities,(www.Sentencedict.com) from both the distant and the more recent past.
204. I am sure in the dim and distant past it had been filched from the wall.
205. The women return to their daily treks to distant rivers, springs or canals to collect polluted water.
206. And the fifth layer sends signals to other deep and distant neural structures, sometimes even the spinal cord.
207. Within 10 minutes Leicester were in full cry for the distant try line.
208. Harry boarded it and the man followed, selecting a seat several rows distant but facing Harry down the open carriage.
209. Although the crabs' distant ancestors came from the sea, these are land crabs.
210. It was so dark he could barely make out the tree line on the distant shore.
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