from afar
idiom
: from a great distance
Their fans come from afar to watch them play.
the Earth as it is seen/viewed from afar
He loved/worshipped/admired her from afar.
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Kirk was shot in the neck from afar while delivering a speech on a Utah college campus.
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Photos show the colony from afar and one spider up close.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Fans clung to Pujols, if from afar.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
The universal love is the applause, either heard in person or received from afar, a love reinforced by the sense of an instant, intimate family—a life backstage or in the trailer, far more interesting than the often unhappy family left behind.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Photos show the colony from afar and one spider up close.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Fans clung to Pujols, if from afar.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
The universal love is the applause, either heard in person or received from afar, a love reinforced by the sense of an instant, intimate family—a life backstage or in the trailer, far more interesting than the often unhappy family left behind.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for from afar
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“From afar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20afar. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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