Examples of far-off in a Sentence
many a young person has joined the military with the hope of traveling to far-off places
the impossibility of predicting what life will be like in the far-off future
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Some of the deportees were held in far-off prisons or detention sites; others had gone into hiding.
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Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Moving the Miami Seaquarium menagerie will involve some far-off relocations, while some of the captive animals still living in the closed theme park will remain close to home.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
Enter the Populists In 1892, a global financial crisis that began with a series of defaults in far-off Argentina and culminated with the bailing out of Barings, one of Britain’s largest banks, had severe repercussions for the American economy.
—David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
Instead, audiences got the frustratingly milquetoast sci-fi tale of Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer who accidentally wakes up nearly a century too early during an interstellar journey to a far-off planet and becomes obsessed with a pretty writer named Aurora (Lawrence), who’s still in hibernation.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
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Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Moving the Miami Seaquarium menagerie will involve some far-off relocations, while some of the captive animals still living in the closed theme park will remain close to home.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
Enter the Populists In 1892, a global financial crisis that began with a series of defaults in far-off Argentina and culminated with the bailing out of Barings, one of Britain’s largest banks, had severe repercussions for the American economy.
—David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
Instead, audiences got the frustratingly milquetoast sci-fi tale of Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer who accidentally wakes up nearly a century too early during an interstellar journey to a far-off planet and becomes obsessed with a pretty writer named Aurora (Lawrence), who’s still in hibernation.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Far-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far-off. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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