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.
• Long gone are the days of the distant dad.
  — Darby Saxbe, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
• Long gone are the days of the distant dad.
  — Darby Saxbe, Fortune, 21 June 2026
• For now, that life feels distant.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
• And right now, that seems like a very distant goal.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• But a lot of the more distant fire is done with blanks on set.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2024
• Choose a route near your house or take a drive to a more distant park.
  — Parents, 11 June 2026
• But this shift is not a distant future.
  — Yolanda Watson Spiva, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
• The comet will be too distant for a real close-up look.
  — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• The beach to the surfer was a distant speck and panic set in.
  — David Chiu, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
• Mars will no longer become a distant place.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 22 May 2026
• More distant spacings will leave gaps in the bed.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
• But that’d be in the far distant future.
  — Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
• Clouds, hills, buildings or even distant haze can block the view.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
• Since then, our friendship has felt distant, at least to me.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
• There are key pieces that could age out in the not-so-distant future.
  — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• Steyer came in a distant third.
  — Elena Moore, NPR, 15 June 2026
• Space is not a distant frontier.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• For too long, many in the rich world heard it as a plea from distant islands.
  — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• This is not something that's distant.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• Naim questions why Ryan acts so distant in school.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
• That was a distant fourth for Chiefs wideouts.
  — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• The film teems with quick cuts to distant moments in Lidia’s life.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
• Yet, for all her charm, Adele has always seemed a bit distant.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2021
• Then a month down the road, your vows are distant memories.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• This isn’t some distant future.
  — Brent Saunders, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
• The lens switches from distant to close subjects in a snap.
  — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
• So are clear skies because even distant clouds can block the view of sunset.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 June 2026
• Down below, the choirs in the balconies seemed a bit distant.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022