How to Use faraway in a Sentence

faraway

adjective
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  • My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
  • Travel back through the mists of time to the faraway land of 2019.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The stress in the Middle East has helped raise the cost of shipping even on faraway routes.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Sometimes the faint sound of an engine—a truck or a tank on the faraway mountain road—but that was rare.
    — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Sitting in that faraway room in Pittsburgh, Sandy was at a loss.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • The full Moon of the 5th tunes you in to dreams, faraway places and vision quests—so ignore petty annoyances that are in the air.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The world is your oyster, and it’s filled with amazing, faraway places that are begging you to visit them!
    — Julia Shiplett, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Let this book’s beauty transport you to this unique, faraway land from the comfort of your living room.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Every now and then, a ship loaded with youngsters sailed from faraway Athens bound for Crete.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • War, plague and fire in England—vividly evoked—mean that the seizure of faraway rebels falls off the government’s agenda.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • For a faraway flavor twist, try adding hot Madras curry powder and a pinch of turmeric.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • You may be called upon to start a new life in a faraway place or decide to return to school to pursue a new degree.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Get the lighting just right, put on your favorite outfit and shoot a sweet video message to send to your faraway sweetheart.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The underbellies of these chunks of faraway glaciers were of the deepest, most delicious blue.
    — Darrell Hartman, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Or a James Bond baddie throwing world-ending tantrums in some faraway lair.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • For their followers, Winter’s videos offer a beam of hope from what can feel like a faraway land.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The fish comes only from the English Channel and other faraway waters.
    — Janelle Davis, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • Haslam, the author, says a Latter-day Saint temple in Thailand was a faraway dream during the struggles of past decades.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The faraway climate controls in the back of the center console appear borrowed from a mass-market X5.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Occasionally, a pesky nearby Milky Way star might get in the way of one’s view of a faraway object.
    — WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • Maybe Charlie chose our family wedding to find a faraway place to lie down, be done with it and cause no trouble.
    — Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The novella follows a young boy from a tiny, faraway planet who stops by Earth while traveling across the universe.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The Ark One is among the ships that have been sent to colonize faraway planets in a last-ditch effort to save humanity.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Webb’s use of the infrared light spectrum allows the telescope to see through the cosmic dust and see faraway light from the corners of the universe, scientists said.
    — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 12 July 2022
  • And the couch is a brilliant purple — emblematic of a distant star in a faraway galaxy.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Limos work when the Housewives are in their natural habitat, but Baskin says that, on cast trips to faraway places, such a fancy ride doesn’t always fit the vibe.
    — Louis Staples, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Insects chirrup — or is that the bleeping of some faraway, half-dreamt electronic machine?
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 July 2022
  • But teachers fear absences may surge even for families who opt to stay in the same school if they are placed in faraway shelters and children face long trips to get to class.
    — Liset Cruz, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Check out our guide to the best ice hotels before booking your spot in some faraway winter location.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023

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