How to Use distant in a Sentence

distant

adjective

• In the distant past, dinosaurs roamed the earth.
• The day I left home is now a distant memory.
• These trips offer the fastest way to see distant parts of the world with the most comfort.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
• Someone as distant as a third cousin might do for a match.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Why can’t wildlife watchers catch a glimpse of the russet beasts on a distant vista?
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
• The dry weather regime could be a distant memory by the spring.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• But The Beat comes in a fairly distant second place, with 479 weeks spent on the tally.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Webb scans the universe from a more distant perch, 1 million miles away.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• The idea that people only come to Venice at a specific time of year is part of the distant past.
  — Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
• In the film, a young man visits his distant father in one of the world’s most lavish resorts.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 May 2023
• Great waves dashing against the distant breakwater shook the metal decks by the shore.
  — Tim Hornyak, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
• Pence is mired in single digits, fighting for a distant third place with the rest of the growing field.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
• The good, good news though is that in a week or so, this will all hopefully be but a distant nightmare.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
• But no starters have been named yet and a depth chart remains somewhat distant.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2023
• That was seen as a distant prospect until the recent eruption.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• The United States is a distant second, with 17 percent.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• Ukraine’s prospects for membership before the war were distant at best.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2024
• This is how light can travel from a distant star all the way to your eyes on Earth—with mostly nothing in between.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• Gene therapy to address the disease's root cause was a distant dream.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• About 20 distant relatives used the site, which narrowed the suspect pool.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 19 July 2023
• That course is designed to simulate the terrain of the moon, Mars and other distant space bodies.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2023
• Webb is showing us many new, distant galaxies – so there's a lot of new science to be done!
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
• In the show, a group of strangers carrying an equal share of 1 million Australian dollars must reach the peak of a distant mountain in just 14 days.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• That fortuitous alignment explains why the distant galaxy was bright enough for Hubble to see in the first place.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
• This results in light from distant sources passing that warping mass and its straight path being curved.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
• Two young Israeli soldiers perched on one of them, rifles pointing toward the distant plumes of smoke from airstrikes.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Here, she was teased for not knowing English and grew up with a distant memory of what her home country was like.
  — Natalie Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, a military coup in 2021 in Myanmar has made any safe return home at best a distant dream.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Some of them will go to a distant observer, and some of them will fall into the disk, irradiate the disk, and then bounce off and reflect into the plane of the telescope.
  — Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024