faraway
adjective
far·away
ˈfär-ə-ˌwā 
1
: lying at a great distance : remote
faraway lands
2
: dreamy, abstracted
a faraway look in her eyes
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Examples of faraway in a Sentence
My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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For this particular question, astronomers used Chandra to observe a faraway galaxy first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
Takeaways: Raziq’s story was not just a familiar one of tragedy and loss in a faraway war.
—Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The answers perhaps can be found in another game whose origin traces back nearly 200 years, is played with an oblong ball and became popularized in a faraway land nearly 10,000 miles from the United States.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
The original Korean language movie has three outlaws plotting a money heist to leave their dystopian world behind for a faraway paradise, only to draw the attention of a vicious killer.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
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Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
Takeaways: Raziq’s story was not just a familiar one of tragedy and loss in a faraway war.
—Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The answers perhaps can be found in another game whose origin traces back nearly 200 years, is played with an oblong ball and became popularized in a faraway land nearly 10,000 miles from the United States.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
The original Korean language movie has three outlaws plotting a money heist to leave their dystopian world behind for a faraway paradise, only to draw the attention of a vicious killer.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
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faraway
adjective
far·away
ˌfär-ə-ˌwā
1
: remote entry 1 sense 1, distant
faraway lands
2
: preoccupied sense 1, dreamy
a faraway look
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