Vocabulary Word
Word: distant
Definition: reserved or aloof; cold in manner; Ex. distant greeting; ADV. distantly
Definition: reserved or aloof; cold in manner; Ex. distant greeting; ADV. distantly
Sentences Containing 'distant'
Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and glanced at the angry Stryver.
He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant clump.
What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
The birds get up from the water, and fly to a distant land.
When at three paces distant from each other, Albert and the count stopped.
The bitter cup of adversity has been drained by me to the very dregs, and I feel that the grave is not far distant.
There could be little or no commerce of any kind between the distant parts of the world.
If they were not, they could not bear the expense of a distant carriage, either by land or by water.
The productions of such distant coal mines can never be brought into competition with one another.
But the productions of the most distant metallic mines frequently may, and in fact commonly are.
The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool.
Lyons is very distant, both from the places which afford the materials of its manufactures, and from those which consume them.
The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets.
But the European colonies in America are more remote than the most distant provinces of the greatest empires which had ever been known before.
England purchased for some of her subjects, who found themselves uneasy at home, a great estate in a distant country.
For at these distant points, the organic remains in certain beds present an unmistakable resemblance to those of the Chalk.
The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled; but would remain as distinct as they now are.
said Miss Betsey, shaking her head, and making a distant chop in the air with her knife.
'Mr. Dick is a sort of distant connexion of mine--it doesn't matter how; I needn't enter into that.
They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds.
A cloud is lowering on the distant town, towards which I retraced my solitary steps.
I made my gentleman a distant bow, and Peggotty barely recognized him.
'However, I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now.
You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, to strengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion.'
It was about ninety leagues distant, and our voyage lasted four days and a half.
This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant.
I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
The nearest major port is at the Port of Durrës, that is 36 km distant from the Tirana city.
Meco also has the distinction of being Spain's most distant populated area from the sea.
There the distant booming of guns were convincing evidence that the "Zone of Advance" (Western Front) had been entered.
He finished a distant 14th, having difficulty on the technical descents on the course, and slipped to fourth overall.
When she emerges, she hears a distant call for "'elp".
Swadesh proposed a number of distant genetic links among languages.
Germain finished a distant third.
Senate nominee results.
Teachers from distant places stayed in the houses of the landlord and taught.
In exile, he settled in France where he married Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley, his distant cousin.
The nearest railway station is Drogheda railway station approximately 9 kilometres distant.
She was seventeen years old and was already engage to a distant relative, Prince George of Schwarzburg.
About 30% of tumors are malignant and have local or distant metastases.
It is 5 km distant from the seat of district, Sobrance
The choir slips cheekily into distant keys now and then.
This allows time to travel to more distant divesites.
He died not long after in a distant northern camp.
Following his father's death, Jimmy kept himself distant from the Cullens.
The aloof Weiyun appears distant all the time.
His ministry among the sons and daughters of earth stretches from the distant past of premortality to the distant future of resurrection, judgment, and beyond.
The dorsal and anal fin are distant from the caudal fin.
The most common placeholder name for a distant place is "Tramtárie".
Stereotypical foreign, distant places are "Timbuktu" and "Indokiina".
From a distant past the moon has beckoned, rich with mystery and enigma.