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.
• But a lot of the more distant fire is done with blanks on set.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2024
• 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
• Rather, the breeze probably carried the smell from some distant point.
  — Lizette Ortega, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
• Yet the filmmaking remains distant enough to allow all the subjects the time and space to tell the story.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 May 2024
• The school felt like a community, the car drop-off line a distant nightmare.
  — Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
• The United States is a distant second, with 17 percent.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• At this rate, Nevin will make the 14-game losing streak a distant memory.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Like an airplane on a glidepath, the iPhone 16 series is there in the distant sky, slowly coming in to land.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 6 Sep. 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
• Conley’s career veered into the distant land of the practice squad the past two seasons.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Rachel Baker, the 38-year-old co-founder of the Spread newsletter, cites more distant role models.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
• Microsoft is a very distant second, with about 7%, and Google Cloud accounts for the rest.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Gene therapy to address the disease's root cause was a distant dream.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• To the north, not visible from the beach, was a distant shore, where rows of mountains resembling jagged waves disappeared into the mist.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• Meanwhile, the New Horizons spacecraft has basic optics and is now about 6.5 billion miles distant (twice as far from the sun as Pluto).
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024