How to Use farther in a Sentence

farther

1 of 2 adverb

• It's farther away than I'd thought.
• The higher the redshift, the farther away – and back in time – the source.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 July 2022
• The parcel of county land is a bit farther from the mine.
  — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 11 July 2018
• Now, move to a room farther away and repeat the speed test.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2020
• States farther to the right have higher rates of mask use.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• In the hottest years, the tiger sharks roamed farther north earlier in the year.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• In the press, there were clues pointing farther afield.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
• And who knows, maybe your best place is on the list, just farther down?
  — Steve Vernon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Control the heat by moving the food closer to or farther away from the fire.
  — Steven Raichlen, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• Then scroll farther for reviews of eight of the best models.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
• From farther up the valley comes the thunder of a summer storm.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• In the photos, the snake appeared to have moved up farther on the dock with the fish still in its mouth.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2019
• Back on his feet and a bit farther down the street, he is struck by a skateboard.
  — Bernard Condon, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2020
• These friends prove that the farther away the cameraman, the better.
  — Gabrielle Sanchez, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
• But a bit farther down on the menu, there’s pasta to save room for.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• That’s farther than all the sun’s planets and even the Kuiper belt.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
• So the left one is also seen as nearby, and the right one farther away.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 2 June 2020
• Something shifts, and the end of the barrel is moving faster and farther away.
  — Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2021
• Plan on lots of sun, and fresher air, as a cold front moves farther away to the south and east.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 June 2020
• The puppet makes jokes about clips of films even farther down the B-movie scale.
  — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• Jimmy just needs to pitch and log innings and get farther away from the injury.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2019
• Shield low light plants with a sheer curtain or pull them farther back from the window.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 10 Mar. 2021
• One of his first attempts was a screen, and the next wasn’t caught much farther from the line of scrimmage.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
• All those shrubs will grow larger and have to be replanted farther from the house.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• Holding planes in the air and making them fly farther wastes fuel.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• Two games into the season, the Saints look much farther away than that.
  — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• For a community that can see farther down the road than next year.
  — John Romano, Tampa Bay Times, 20 Feb. 2017
• The tree that was farther south than any other on Cape Horn.
  — National Geographic, 7 July 2020
• Officials may have thought that would send the massive slick farther out to sea.
  — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
• Good, now move your arms farther apart until the sweat beads on your forehead.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2020

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farther

2 of 2 adjective

• The stronger the blower, the farther the snow is thrown.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• But, of course, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
  — Jessica Zucker, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2021
• If the ball is hit to the farther half of the net, sprint to pick up the ball and run toward the other side of the net.
  — Luis Velarde, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• That could not be farther from the truth for Thomas Lee.
  — Rich Pope, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2021
• The score was a little farther than what the game really was.
  — Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2022
• The farther one looks into the cosmos, the further back in time one goes.
  — Justin Bachman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2021
• The next is farther to the east and will approach the Caribbean in a few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Aug. 2019
• That love and support goes a lot farther than a yoga punch card right now.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
• All winters are dark, and get darker the farther one lives from the equator.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
• This happens when the moon is farther from Earth and cannot block out the entire sun.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
• The farther homes are spread apart, the lower the return on investment.
  — NBC News, 16 June 2021
• The gentler the slope, the farther inland incoming water can push the ice.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2019
• The team fled farther west, to Stayton and then to Keizer.
  — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• Some areas well to the east and farther to the south may see a few showers, but most will remain dry.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020
• Ignite this from a safe distance—the flame should be farther from you than just at the end of your fingers.
  — Car and Driver, 11 July 2020
• Because the Earth bulges in the middle, mountains along the equator are farther from the core.
  — NBC News, 9 Dec. 2020
• Running a whole lot farther than a cross country race, no less.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2021
• Beyond that, bullets drift more in the wind at farther distances.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 1 June 2020
• And then those farther to the left jumped on him, and Fox News and those on the right put the boots to him, too.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
• But the track of this storm may wobble farther east or west of the current trajectory.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• But the two ideas, perhaps not unlike the two men, could not be farther from each other.
  — Dorian Rolston, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• That heat will be felt much farther and wider than in Minnesota.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
• Hanks added that this perception of him couldn’t be farther from how he was raised.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
• Those changes, in turn, are reducing the survival rates of the birds in their winter grounds farther south.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
• These are very similar to Nor'easters, but the center of the storm tends to be farther inland.
  — Cnn Meteorologist Allison Chinchar, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• On each subsequent hoy day go a little farther and a little faster.
  — Mellanie Perez, Health.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• There will be increasingly little rain the farther west one goes.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• Cooler waters, such as those farther north, can starve the systems.
  — Aric Chokey, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Still the drones circling above a farther sky and dropping our taxes made explosive.
  — Danez Smith, The New Yorker, 5 June 2020
• Nothing could be farther from the truth, and a closer look at data can help disabuse us of this notion.
  — Shahid Jameel, Quartz, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2024