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

Recent Examples on the Web Despite this, robust gun control measures—background checks, gun buybacks, banning literally anything—seem a faraway fantasy in this country, even as cameras that scan visitors’ faces and match them against a blacklist are already in use. — Sidney Fussell, The New Republic, 17 June 2022 The short version: For many years, the archipelago was a faraway administrative appendage of the British colony of Mauritius, an island off the coast of Africa. — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 But the shooting in the church in Laguna Woods, Calif., stood out in its own way, a variation on American tragedy that seemed to show how faraway conflicts, even those in the distant past, can reverberate in the gun culture of the United States. — New York Times, 12 June 2022 That’s less chaotic and expensive than coordinating with factories in faraway countries and waiting for finished orders to arrive, Hassell said. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022 Known locally as La Floresta, the USFS is often seen as a feudal lord, a faraway government entity that has accumulated vast holdings with little idea of how to properly steward them or enough funds to do the job. — Alicia Inez Guzmán For Searchlight Nm, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022 The physician’s case studies included the story of a girl sent to a faraway hospital to recover from a bad fall. — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022 The fish comes only from the English Channel and other faraway waters. — Janelle Davis, CNN, 25 May 2022 Ironically, the heavily corroded dial looks like the surface of a faraway planet. — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 25 May 2022 See More

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