farther
Example Sentences
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“We try to buy a little bit farther out than where existing developments are happening—that’s been a little bit of our strategy.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
The fire can be seen from farther away.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
She won’t take fares farther than Petaluma, about 40 miles away from San Francisco, and turns down several requests for rides a day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The other looks much farther back in time, using the cosmic microwave background to estimate what the expansion rate should be today based on the standard model of cosmology.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
Now they were separated anyway and the farther he was from shore, the slimmer his chance of making it.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Vocabulary lists containing farther
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