We found 155 examples of how to use distant in an English sentence.
Sentences 101 to 125 of 155.
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| 101. | The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown but longed for still. And his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom. | |
| 102. | So fired with rage, the Trojans' scanty train / by fierce Achilles and the Greeks unslain / she barred from Latium, and in evil strait / for many a year, on many a distant main / they wandered, homeless outcasts, tost by fate. | |
| 103. | While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern. | |
| 104. | For while, the queen awaiting, round he gazed, / and marvelled at he happy town, and scanned / the rival labours of each craftman's hand, / behold, Troy's battles on the walls appear, / the war, since noised through many a distant land, / there Priam and th' Atridae twain, and here / Achilles, fierce to both, still ruthless and severe. | |
| 105. | Sirius is a binary star system and is about 8.6 light-years distant from our sun. | |
| 106. | The prospect is still distant. | |
| 107. | "Come then and seek we, as the gods command, / the Gnosian kingdoms, and the winds entreat. / Short is the way, nor distant lies the land. / If Jove be present and assist our fleet, / the third day lands us on the shores of Crete." | |
| 108. | Tom seemed very distant today. | |
| 109. | Sami started noticing Layla getting distant. | |
| 110. | Sami wanted to keep Layla distant from his friends. | |
| 111. | Sami was kind of distant. | |
| 112. | Far off is seen, above the billowy mere, / Trinacrian AEtna, and the distant roar / of ocean and the beaten rocks we hear, / and the loud burst of breakers on the shore; / high from the shallows leap the surges hoar, / and surf and sand mix eddying. | |
| 113. | The Hubble Telescope has given us spectacular pictures from space, from the dramatic image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, some 6,500 to 7,000 light years from Earth, to a snapshot of nearly 10,000 galaxies, including some that may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. | |
| 114. | Are they our distant brethren? | |
| 115. | Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion declaration and although the very heavens echo to the reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in our hearts. "Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me." We travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home. | |
| 116. | She climbed up the highest mountains with the prince, and although her delicate feet bled so that others saw it, she only laughed and followed him until they saw the clouds sailing below them like a flock of birds, taking flight to distant lands. | |
| 117. | The bridal guests assembled in gallant troops from distant quarters. | |
| 118. | Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages. | |
| 119. | The experiment was repeated in a distant place with very similar results. | |
| 120. | It’s such a distant connection that I hope Oscar won’t bring up our being kissing cousins at school. | |
| 121. | He was going to Kabylie to see his distant family. | |
| 122. | Mennad got really distant. | |
| 123. | Pluto is so small and distant. | |
| 124. | He's a distant relative of mine. | |
| 125. | He's a distant relative of hers. |