How to Use a far cry from in a Sentence

a far cry from

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• These Brussels sprout recipes are a far cry from those sad sprouts.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
• Today’s flats are a far cry from the stiff styles of my childhood.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
• These are a far cry from your average run of the mill frozen pizzas.
  — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• This philosophy is a far cry from the one-line queries many users start with.
  — Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
• That’s a far cry from the financial troubles that plagued the club more than two decades ago.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 13 July 2026
• This is a far cry from their early days, working out of Matt’s dad’s garage.
  — Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Those cases are a far cry from suing every creator of a meme, of course.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
• This was a far cry from how the first media outlet treated their findings.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
• This careful approach to heat styling is a far cry from the practice of heat training.
  — Kayla Greaves, Allure, 18 Sep. 2024
• That is still a far cry from the hundreds of thousands of men playing in both countries.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• But the ones envisioned when the trial was scheduled are a far cry from those now present.
  — Nathan Bowe, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2025
• In a scene that's a far cry from where last week's episode left us, the two then proceed to the ship's upper deck.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• For Perreault, the historic grenade was a far cry from his usual finds.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
• But 2023 proved to be a far cry from her triumphant rookie year.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
• Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land.
  — Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The album’s rollout went off without a hitch, a far cry from the days of long delays and false starts.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
• The episode ends as a smile creeps across her face, which is a far cry from the expressionless bride at the top of the hour.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
• His comfort level in the pocket was a far cry from the first preseason game.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
• The three-wheelers are a far cry from the old-timers that only a year ago cruised the streets spewing clouds of black smoke.
  — ABC News, 10 July 2026
• That's a far cry from the Sixers, who have both George and Maxey.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
• That's a far cry from Monday's spike up to $119 and change per barrel.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
• Wisconsin gets to start right at midfield, a far cry from the poor field position of the last drive.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• Jones is somewhat boyish, a far cry from Augie, the grieving and confused dad.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• Christened Noy, the new multihull is a far cry from the boats on the ocean thousands of years ago.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2022
• This was a far cry from the big-vision data-center broad strokes posed by Huang in his keynote.
  — John Burek, PCMAG, 10 June 2024
• The performance was a far cry from the team’s 4-0 loss in Columbus last week.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024
• That’s nice, but a far cry from Musk’s promise that space data centers will be the future.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 2 Apr. 2026
• Also, the average field size in his five races has been just six horses, which is a far cry from 20.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 4 May 2025
• The newest normal will be a far cry from the peak TV of old, however.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• That’s a far cry from the $7,208 per person the same route would have cost us at the time of booking.
  — Callie Radke Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2024