Use "distant" in a sentence

1. He poured some and leaned back, but soon noticed the sound of distant thunder

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2. I listen to the distant sounds of an occasional car driving past the house …

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3. Dave peers at the distant mountains

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4. with a good Strathspey malt, which she then took up to her distant relative

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5. direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was,

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6. In the not too distant, where humanity reached its limit

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7. As it was he got a hard look and thunder rumbled ominously in the sky, echoing off the distant mountains for seconds

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8. She’s been a little distant lately …

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9. He says it was very boring but I have a feeling he just doesn’t want to talk about it – there is a distant look in his eyes when he mentions it

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10. They had often conversed during the fifty year journey, to the point where she was the closest female friend he had ever had except his wives, and maybe a closer friend than Ajeel, his fourth and most distant in age

11. "We know our history," he said, the words echoing again and again off the distant mountains

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12. Brasil was a place daddy was from, a distant curiosity with some neat features like carnival costumes and caipirinhas

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13. Herndon was glad because he wouldn't want panic among the natives, but even when Herndon pointed this out to Governor Pataios, the Governor was uninterested with distant astronomical events and unconvinced it was the work of the Al-Harron

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14. I watched him for a moment or two, not understanding what all this was about, but then I too heard a low and distant rumble

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15. They were passing over some distant realm he had never seen, making him realize how little he had seen, though he had journeyed a local year from the Kassikan, it was a small distance on the world when seen from this distance, not a twentieth of a circumnavigation

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16. Once he was five or six miles from shore, it was finally just them and the waves and distant sails

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17. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet

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18. Wait a second… we can draw near to God? He isn’t distant? We can have relation with Him? We don’t have to continue to give these offerings and sacrifices without hearing whether or not He accepts them?

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19. Thru the next couple hours the mist would evaporate ever closer to the river and the storm would subside to a distant rumble and fluffy twinkle far up the valley

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20. Stories of Sons’ greatness continued to reach distant lands

21. In dreaming of a peacock sky on some far distant world, Smith allowed a feather to fall upon the barren rocks of our world

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22. In front of them, a vast expanse of sand stretched towards the distant waters and just round to the left was the aforementioned pier … a long narrow construction reaching far out across the sands towards the sea

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23. Another youth makes his irreverence glitter under the same God’s distant stars,

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24. She was totally different from the cold distant ice witch he remembered in camp

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25. boys, girls, bars and music in the distant fog of your story

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26. A family of lorisaurs murmured in the branches above, and the distant shriek of a small dactyl could be heard far back the way they had come

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27. removed, distant in dark houses with children asleep in their beds

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28. "A stargate is the theory that space can be curved and distant points brought together so they are joined over distances as great as one star to another," Luray said

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29. Afternoonday wasn't yet underway by the time they finally set off for the distant horizon to the northeast, but they didn't worry about the time, they were just glad to still be alive

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30. All Alan could see was a distant dot on tiny stick legs, tiny and indistinct in the wavering distance

31. It was still very distant, but he was reminded of a spider, a daddy longlegs with only the end joint of all it's legs

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32. As before, I am impressed by the skill of our distant ancestors … I can’t imagine the work and organisation that must have gone into building this place

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33. trying to trace the contours of distant lives

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34. After shaking hands and getting permission to leave my stuff in the bar, I moved off round the bay towards the distant beach

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35. four and a half hours distant,

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36. His was all the way to the starboard end, so he had windows on two sides, the ones at the table looking out over the side and at the distant banks gliding by

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37. on a distant shore line where the shapes

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38. Dressed in swanky velveteen of burgundy and rust, her windows were curtained from top to bottom, giving a distant effect of luxurious chic

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39. He would continue to ply distant rivers

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40. After all, how distant can you be with a man who has wound bandages round your upper leg? We debate whether I should put my stained hosen back on again or not – opting to leave the clean ones for tomorrow … I’ll have to wash this pair out as soon as I get the chance

41. Later that night, when the coast was clear the suburban hiatus by the oak tree was just a distant memory, the soldier stood on Harrow hill and gazed out across his new world horizon

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42. During cleaning it became clear that at some time in the distant past part of the church had been a temple dedicated to Pallas Athena and although it was not unusual for the locals to mix their beliefs, the church authorities were rather embarrassed and the work came to a standstill until it could be determined who would provide funds for the work to continue

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43. ’ Berndt said, sounding distant – though that could just be my imagination

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44. At home in Cornwall, whenever things were quiet in the library, I'd pretend to busy myself in the Reference Section because from there I could see the waters of the harbour and if I raised my head a little I could just about see past the lighthouse to the distant horizon with its line of silver light

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45. Sitting at my desk, with the distant sounds of the office going on as normal, I face the all too likely possibility that my life is about to fall apart

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46. I tried staring into my surroundings without focusing on anything in particular and that helped a distant crumbling ruin to emerge from its orange terraced soil but the stillness made me feel I was being monitored or that something nasty was about to happen

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47. Armed with her father’s old address book, and after many disappointing telephone calls to old friends and distant relations, Annie eventually tracked down an ancient great-aunt who owned a crumbling Victorian villa that had been converted into bedsits

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48. "Sir, I think the possibility exists that this agent that arrived by Thom's condensate transported Alan to the distant site in his universe," Glayet said

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49. "He says the only way he sees the distant areas is in the setup screens when he details them," Kelvin recalled Ava telling him, "but I tend to agree with Heymon

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50. It would have to be in the geometry, probably something like forgetting to convert degrees to radians in the distant scene composer

51. the oak tree was just a distant memory, the soldier stood on Harrow

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52. The window was open, the sounds of the bullring were distant, the grunts, moans and sighs of others engaging in pleasure was detectable in the still night air

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53. The great ship she had originally sailed these waters on was a distant memory

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54. of the distant past didn't at all mind just one here and there after winding

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55. As she scanned the horizon it was as if she was moving her head hundreds of miles, distant islands moved across her view much faster than closer ones

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56. disappointing telephone calls to old friends and distant relations,

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57. The horrors of the War slowly faded to a distant memory,

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58. Too much unfinished business from those distant days

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59. This one was marching off toward the flat lands, hiding the distant hills and making it look like they were on remote islands

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60. Sheila’s a distant cousin of Aunt Clarissa’s, hardly related at all, but she had a mother who was perpetually ill, so she spent a fair bit of time staying with the Danvers over the years

61. In the distant past a primitive scientist sewed up a body out of parts and struck it with lightning and it came to life

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62. He hadn’t gotten back to the boat til Morningday started to show over the distant deeps

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63. into the distant past

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64. He was disappointed, she could be vulnerable now and he had always admired the wizard from a distant star transplanted into the body her companion had been following

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65. It took him a few seconds to dredge his memories for those distant days

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66. “Jorma?” Ava had been concentrating on this it seemed, while it was now a distant incident in his past

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67. 'Long before all the tribes of the great plains came under the sway of the first great chief, far away in an open field beyond the distant mountains, two groups of young men from 'the people' armed themselves with spears, sticks, and bows and excited each other to the verge of a violent fight

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68. The distant land could barely be detected, Kortrax couldn’t quite meet his reflection, there was the tiniest line between them

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69. ‘Witnesses say she seemed very distant at times … unconnected almost

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70. out that Brad was a distant relative of mine, a third cousin once

71. “Yes,” Bram confirmed, “In an exceedingly distant way

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72. This was a pleasant surprise, and once again, it couldn’t have happened without the Yingolian crystals because without them it is highly unlikely that she and her contact would ever correspond, Tahlmute’s current home is nearly an hour distant on needleboat and streetcar

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73. Her apartments had been arranged for her in Stratford, and she would have the company of a distant female cousin and her widowed mother, but Kaitlyn had never met them

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74. The electronic pulse to her left rattles like howitzer fire, a distant memory causing a Pavlovian response

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75. Xavier took this distress signal to a distant and dark room, and analyzed all the data on the distress signal

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76. Corrente looked out the window at a distant prospect of

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77. He liked these friends, although lately they seemed to be behaving somewhat distant

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78. The plains ended at a wide valley with low hills beyond, miles closer than the distant mountains

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79. Meanwhile the final carriages filled and headed for Truckee carrying the last of the summer's tourists home to hearth and kin in the distant cities and towns of their ordinary lives

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80. A cobalt bowl of sky arched over him, clipped on with the teeth of distant mountains

81. whisper in the distant void below

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82. Then Jack heard a distant voice in the distance

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83. Once back in the forest it was pleasantly cool and quiet except for the occasional sound of a distant ax

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84. eye, that killer look a tiger gives his distant prey

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85. seen of Paris was a distant, faint glow on the horizon

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86. began trotting steadily towards the distant Abbey, the sun

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87. John Smith says from a distant place in his

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88. Her first words were “From a distant star to this dirty bar

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89. “What?” Their distant profitable relationship had been stable and increasing over the last decade

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90. He tried the tower, seeking to know if dawn had brought enough light to reach the distant Yakhan

91. Alan made her think of this song, for it told of a witch queen luring a guy from a distant star to a dark meeting house on some rain-soaked decaying waterfront, and from there pursuing him thru centuries and lifetimes to finally capture him on a windy hillside

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92. Sign's pointed downstairs to Hill Circle and Alan put two different trips thru distant areas of the city together for the first time

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93. She could see the distant resemblance

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94. And what else was he saying? He expected her to be from a returning expedition? From here? Hadn't Alan babbled something about a technological civilization here in the distant past? Yes, way back when he was still in that village in the hills

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95. As he had been commanded; he stood atop the scorched tower of the Archenon, his keen eyes of white watching for the last of the refugees to vanish into the distant bloody aura

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96. They were digging so deep and so distant, that the cost to transport their goods basically tripled its value; thus allowing Rafe to sell his silver at an obscene price

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97. backdrop to the distant hills so picturesque that it’s almost

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98. Occasionally lightning flares erupted in the distant sky, followed immediately with an earth-shaking thunderclap

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99. But the glow vanished, and he dismissed it as a trick of his mind; the hammer most likely catching the light of mage-fire or a distant lighting strike

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