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far-off

[fahr-awf, -of] / ˈfɑrˈɔf, -ˈɒf /


ADVERB
from or at a distance
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Far-off windows sparkled in the sunlight, and brick walls glowed at a distance, after being hidden for months by dense warm-season greenery.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2022

Far-out and Far-off Solutions No matter how efficiently man exploits, delivers and uses the earth's remaining oil and gas deposits, they may well be all gone in little more than a half-century.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a break, kids can play games like Far-off Adventure, in which typing in rhythm with accompanying music keeps a hot-air balloon afloat on the screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far-off, the little Spanish guns did correspondingly small damage, even when they managed to hit; while the heavy metal of the English, handled by real seamen-gunners, inflicted crushing damage in return.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

Far-off snatches I had gathered, a few of the louder notes had reached me from distant woods, or from far up the mountain side; but I had never been satisfied.

From Little Brothers of the Air by Miller, Olive Thorne




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