6 sentences with 'distant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distant and other words derived from it.
• « Students had to apply for admission, and the Jesuits working in the schools were much closer to their students than the very distant professors of the traditional universities of the time. »
• « The speed of steam train travel brought everything 'closer together', and in doing so began a long, slow process of linking distant regions. People could travel to their kingdom capitals or, later, to their "nations", and the intense localism of the past began to fade. »
• « The Fascist motto was "believe, obey, fight", a distant parody of the French liberal motto (from the French Revolution) "liberty, equality, fraternity". »
• « In my mind, each cut diamond burns with the fire of its distant cradle, eloquent testimony to the combined genius of man and nature. »
• « Although we now live in distant cities, we still speak to each other as confidently as we did when we were five years old. »
• « When my grandmother died I was 10 years old. Her death in that distant July, in the middle of one of the wettest summers I can remember, broke our hearts. »