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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241. Those were distant days, when the fishermen on my island had long woven baskets like loaves of bread.
242. It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred.
243. Distant though it is from the Gulf, the Maghreb has been deeply affected by the war.
244. More distant prospects include improved vaccines for tuberculosis and childhood diseases, and possibly an AIDS vaccine, Young said.
245. To think: a distant cousin of the Romanovs, and his love.
246. The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet's contrails, whooshing along in impressive white streams.
247. In fact, global work gets done by peo-ple from a crazy quilt of cultures across a maze of distant locations.
248. In the gutter and against railings caches of autumn leaves were turning black with rot, a reminder of the distant summer.
249. Sinking down into the seat, she stared blindly through the windscreen, her thoughts on her distant family.
250. A slight breeze picks up and you see only occasional flashes of distant lightning that still illuminate the whole sky.
251. She heard distant bells ringing and the strange silence of the streets.
252. To the Hawaiian eye, waves are light rays bending round the planet from distant lands.
253. Beyond the great sweep of blue trouser and the distant clouds of sweater was a beard.
254. The distant mountains form the backcloth of an opera set.
255. I wondered if our own troops in distant countries behaved in this way.
256. Far enough for the noise of the city to be a distant hum, near enough to hear its pulse beating.
257. This may, inpart, explain why current approaches seem so distant from those applied to other periods of the past.
258. The Jaguar is reported to have crashed in a distant country, mad as hell.
259. The nonlocal implication is that occurrences in one region of space are inherently correlated with other distant regions.
260. This is why the method is often applied to soften and diffuse distant objects or hills, as in atmospheric perspective.
261. Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past: last year two people were reported as having died in custody.
262. They relate less to their child, play less with her, in an attempt to stay emotionally distant from her.
263. Constantly guarding their rather distant borders of self, they become emotionally disconnected, often enduring the consequent loneliness for a lifetime.sentencedict.com
264. She had not killed him, she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city.
265. The district, he argued, was too distant from the consumer.
266. Father-of-two Ivan, who lived modestly, struck rich 10 years ago when a distant cousin left him £8 million.
267. You are as distant from their worries and their rows as any angel.
268. The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
269. Changing their destiny Shahidul Alam travels with the poor who chase a dream to distant lands.
270. Neither planet could be seen optically, the star being 30,000 light years distant from the Earth.
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