Definition of faraway
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
Recent Examples of faraway from the Web
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Others are young people drawn to the plight of the Kurdish rebels, or by the powerful lure of combat in a faraway land.
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The frigid, faraway body that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom by 18 months from now may actually be a cluster of small objects, new observations suggest.
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Nevertheless, Coppola creates a portrait of the repressed, isolated lives of women and girls during wartime — even if the only overt signs of battle here are faraway explosions and the occasional cavalry coming by.
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And, oh yes, what is probably the best theme-park attraction Walt Disney World engineers have developed to date: a thrilling ride on the back of a flying banshee through a lush, faraway land.
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Problem In a faraway kingdom, there is a mysterious herb.
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Problem In a faraway kingdom, there is a mysterious herb.
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As did all those trips to faraway places, where eating was an adventure –
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Both scientists thought that such large displays on Earth would surely grab the attention of faraway intelligent life.
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