How to Use farther in a Sentence

farther

1 of 2 adverb
  • It's farther away than I'd thought.
  • The higher the redshift, the farther away – and back in time – the source.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 July 2022
  • That’s farther than all the sun’s planets and even the Kuiper belt.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
  • Now, move to a room farther away and repeat the speed test.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2020
  • And who knows, maybe your best place is on the list, just farther down?
    Steve Vernon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In the hottest years, the tiger sharks roamed farther north earlier in the year.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Those in the front row are maybe 3 feet from him; those in the back row aren’t much farther.
    Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
  • Any 8-foot plants should be 4 feet or farther out from the fence.
    Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The parcel of county land is a bit farther from the mine.
    Lily Altavena, azcentral, 11 July 2018
  • In the photos, the snake appeared to have moved up farther on the dock with the fish still in its mouth.
    Fox News, 7 June 2019
  • But a bit farther down on the menu, there’s pasta to save room for.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • In the press, there were clues pointing farther afield.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The puppet makes jokes about clips of films even farther down the B-movie scale.
    Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Back on his feet and a bit farther down the street, he is struck by a skateboard.
    Bernard Condon, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2020
  • States farther to the right have higher rates of mask use.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Plan on lots of sun, and fresher air, as a cold front moves farther away to the south and east.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 June 2020
  • These friends prove that the farther away the cameraman, the better.
    Gabrielle Sanchez, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
  • However, this time the bull's-eye is farther south, along the coast.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
  • During the past decade, as the Bering Sea warmed, king crab in some years moved farther north.
    Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • So the left one is also seen as nearby, and the right one farther away.
    Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 2 June 2020
  • The tree that was farther south than any other on Cape Horn.
    National Geographic, 7 July 2020
  • One of his first attempts was a screen, and the next wasn’t caught much farther from the line of scrimmage.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
  • Something shifts, and the end of the barrel is moving faster and farther away.
    Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Control the heat by moving the food closer to or farther away from the fire.
    Steven Raichlen, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • At times, Uranus is farther away from the sun than is Pluto.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Two games into the season, the Saints look much farther away than that.
    Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • From farther up the valley comes the thunder of a summer storm.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Then scroll farther for reviews of eight of the best models.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But on Mars there’s less of it, because the planet is farther out.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Some of the effects of 3500MHz will appear later this year, or farther down the road.
    Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 1 Aug. 2022
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farther

2 of 2 adjective
  • The stronger the blower, the farther the snow is thrown.
    Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But, of course, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.
    Jessica Zucker, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2021
  • That could not be farther from the truth for Thomas Lee.
    Rich Pope, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2021
  • The answer is that the sun is 400 times farther from Earth.
    oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
  • And then those farther to the left jumped on him, and Fox News and those on the right put the boots to him, too.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • The ship’s Top Pair and Top Steer radars can peer out to 200 miles or farther.
    David Axe, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • If the ball is hit to the farther half of the net, sprint to pick up the ball and run toward the other side of the net.
    Luis Velarde, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The next is farther to the east and will approach the Caribbean in a few days.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The team fled farther west, to Stayton and then to Keizer.
    Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But the girls live 45 minutes away, and the soccer games are even farther.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The farther one looks into the cosmos, the further back in time one goes.
    Justin Bachman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • This happens when the moon is farther from Earth and cannot block out the entire sun.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • Because the Earth bulges in the middle, mountains along the equator are farther from the core.
    NBC News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The score was a little farther than what the game really was.
    Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2022
  • All winters are dark, and get darker the farther one lives from the equator.
    Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • On the Right Bank, farther inland, merlot and cabernet franc are the main grapes.
    Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
  • These are very similar to Nor'easters, but the center of the storm tends to be farther inland.
    Cnn Meteorologist Allison Chinchar, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Thus, to find the beautiful snowflakes, Dr. Myhrvold went north, much farther north.
    New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The farther homes are spread apart, the lower the return on investment.
    NBC News, 16 June 2021
  • Some areas well to the east and farther to the south may see a few showers, but most will remain dry.
    Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Ignite this from a safe distance—the flame should be farther from you than just at the end of your fingers.
    Car and Driver, 11 July 2020
  • That love and support goes a lot farther than a yoga punch card right now.
    Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • That’s a little farther than the distance between the Earth and Saturn.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The gentler the slope, the farther inland incoming water can push the ice.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2019
  • But the two ideas, perhaps not unlike the two men, could not be farther from each other.
    Dorian Rolston, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Today, surfers are found much farther south along the shore, at Playa La Lancha.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.
    Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Running a whole lot farther than a cross country race, no less.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Those changes, in turn, are reducing the survival rates of the birds in their winter grounds farther south.
    National Geographic, 12 May 2016
  • Homa’s tee shot was farther to the left, almost resting against the trunk of a Bottlebrush tree.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2021

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