distant
Example Sentences
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Parsons said liminal spaces all share a quality of feeling familiar: hearkening fragments of distant memories or experiences during childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
"Octopuses are among the most evolutionarily distant animals from humans, as our last common ancestor was a worm that lived 350 to 500 million years ago," says Kieseler.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
An end to the fighting looks as distant as ever.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
I lived in the basement of a distant aunt I’d never met, and the commute from Jamaica, Queens, was over an hour.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Jonah looked around, but most of the kids just looked bored and distant, as if this was a particularly dull class at school.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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