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afar

adverb as in a great distance away

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Example Sentences

The team tracked individuals from afar to get a sense of their behavior.

“Letters to Afar” demonstrates how ordinary the victims were.

If ever there was a time for a show like “Letters to Afar” to be shown in Budapest, it is now.

But the big question, of course, was how closely Russia watched from afar.

On May 20, a pickup truck drove to an Iraqi army checkpoint in the city of Tal Afar.

They sat in the hall and cried; the black-haired boy looking on from afar.

At this point Harry entered and stood afar off, eying Punch, a disheveled heap in the corner of the room, with disgust.

In France these reports would have been impersonal messages arriving from afar.

All who are in him, though once like those, who were sometimes afar off, are made nigh by his blood.

Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afar, such as: null, far away, far-off, and yonder.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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