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
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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Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 July 2025
While issues related to climate change can feel broad, faraway and existential, Takkuuk puts names, faces, stories and sounds to them.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 July 2025
Bringing them from faraway places added extra meaning, turning the feast at Asiab into a powerful celebration of skill, effort, and community.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 29 July 2025
Construction began in 1994 and took more than 20 years, including a four-year shutdown to improve the detectors, before LIGO detected its first gravitational wave in 2015: a ripple in the space-time fabric coming from the faraway collision of a pair of black holes.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faraway. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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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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