faraway

Example Sentences

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Scammers can call you from some faraway location and make the number coming up on your phone appear to be your bank’s headquarters in the city where you live.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

You might be tempted, with every faraway look in Christian Petzold’s subtly moving “Miroirs No. 3,” to hope for that soothing, enlightened release so often served as catharsis in tales of loss and healing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Rubbish washes up on the island from many faraway places, with a decapitated doll from Japan once rearing its plastic head.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Three centuries of Danish colonization has spurred a range of resentments between the island’s Inuit residents and faraway Copenhagen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

In the faraway ages when the tales of Greek mythology were taking shape men found the brilliant blossoms of the Greek spring a wonder and a delight.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton