We can see distant objects with a telescope.

Distant things look blurred.

We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.

Watching television changes the role of the fans by making their participation more passive and distant.

You need not have come all the way from such a distant place.

The new boy is distant because he does not know us.

Something looking like a UFO made a sudden turn then disappeared into the distant sky.

An orphan at three, he was brought up by a distant relative.

The moon is distant from the earth.

Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.

We live many miles distant from each other.

I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.

We encountered him in a distant town.

My son lives in a distant place.

The sun is so distant from the earth.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.

He is my distant relation.

He tried climbing the distant mountain.

He is a distant relation of hers.

It's still minor league but in the not so distant future they'll be coming to a place near you.

On cloudy days, you can hear distant sounds better than in clear weather.

You should apologize to her for being so distant.

You seem distant.

A close neighbor is better than a distant relative.

All places are distant from heaven alike.

This world is a distant three hundred million light years away from the world where you live.

Sometimes he seems very distant.

Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each similar to our sun.

When the four limbs are placed correctly and the vital energy of blood is tranquil, the thoughts will be unified, and mind will be concentrated: ears and eyes will not be flooded, and what is distant will be like what is close, - the knowledge will be born out of thinking.

Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.

What makes the classics both intriguing and fascinating is that they're near enough that we can feel the similarity and they're distant enough that we have to do some work to bridge the gap.

Abraham then arose in the same night, and went with two servants to the distant land, together with Isaac, riding on donkeys.

The pilgrims brought gifts from distant lands.

Ants and giraffes are distant cousins.

Ants and giraffes are distant relatives.

Titan's black rivers and black lakes of methane were a sight to behold with ringed Saturn and the faint distant sun in the cloudy horizon.

Some religious groups set up gigantic generational ships that travelled many years away from the Solar System to distant stars.

About distant relatives, one can complain to their heart's content.

Mary Elton, the rector's only child, a sweet maiden of twenty-two summers stood at the window of her pretty chamber, looking out upon the wonderful picture which frost and sunshine, with the long stretch of valley, and distant wood-clad hills, had made for her.

A work like "In This House of Brede," which tells the story of a successful businesswoman who enters a convent in middle life, is as interesting--and for the same reasons--as a story that takes place on a planet orbiting a distant star.

What one cannot see is what is distant; instead, look at what is near.

This did not satisfy Tom, and the relationship between them became more distant.

This did not satisfy Mary, and the relationship between them became more distant.

Tomorrow a distant cousin is coming.

Tom is a distant relative of mine.

Tom seems very distant today.

The ocean extends to the distant horizon.

Some years ago, large ships were sent towards the North Pole, to explore the distant coasts, and to try how far men could penetrate into those unknown regions.

Look at the distant horizon!

I asked him why he seemed distant. He said he needed a break.

Tom wrote a book about a young man who, in the distant future, falls in love with an extraterrestrial girl, during an invasion of the earth.

Tom is cold, distant and arrogant.

She acted distant towards me today.

Why are you being so distant?

The serial killer was cold and distant during his trial, and appeared unaffected by the fact that he had murdered so many people.

A distant memory is all I have left of my grandparents.

Astral projection augmented by sophisticated instrumentation became utilized for exploration of distant parts of the universe.

Tom is a distant relative of Mary's.

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

I am going to a distant place, you don't want to ask where.

Tom looked distant and distracted while Mary told him her life story.

A name indicating something far away or in distant memory.

That's very distant.

Tom has been awfully distant lately.

Now there came a time when it became necessary for the merchant to leave his home and to travel to a distant Tsardom. He bade farewell to his wife and her two daughters, kissed Vasilissa and gave her his blessing and departed, bidding them say a prayer each day for his safe return.

I'm sure, in the distant future, you won't be able to forgive yourself.

Eris is the most distant member of our solar system known at this time. It is 3 times farther out than Pluto.

For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.

The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006, and will arrive at Pluto in 2015. It will be the first spacecraft to visit that very distant dwarf planet.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

In 1609, Galileo heard about the invention of the spyglass, a device which made distant objects appear closer. Galileo used his mathematical knowledge and technical skills to improve upon the spyglass and build a telescope.

Heaven keep us from a knowledge of the sights the moon beheld upon that field, when, coming up above the black line of distant rising-ground, softened and blurred at the edge by trees, she rose into the sky and looked upon the plain, strewn with upturned faces that had once at mothers' breasts sought mothers' eyes, or slumbered happily.

Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?

Would you like to travel to distant horizons?

Tom has a distant relationship with his father.

Giraffes and ants are distant cousins.

The pagan nations of antiquity always had a tendency to worship the sun, under different names, as the giver of light and life. And their festivals in its honor took place near the winter solstice, the shortest day in the year, when the sun in December begins its upward course, thrilling men with the first distant promise of spring.

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings.

Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.

The Romans built aqueducts to bring water from distant places into cities.

Sami and Layla were rather distant.

Why so many distant wars, I wonder.

Tom and I are distant relatives.

Tom was polite but distant.

The distant worlds observed by Hubble and other telescopes are just the tip of the iceberg, according to a Hubble survey of the center of our Milky Way. The study revealed that our galaxy should be brimming with 100 billion planets, at least one planet for every star.

About a million years ago, an icy comet began its journey from its home in our distant solar system, hundreds of times farther out than any planet. Now, the comet has finally reached our inner solar system neighborhood as it follows its long path around the Sun.

Every year astronomers observe comets that come from the distant solar system and travel back out again.

There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work.

The great salt plain stretched before his eyes, and the distant belt of savage mountains, without a sign anywhere of plant or tree, which might indicate the presence of moisture.

The limber pine is the bristlecone’s distant relative and competitor. It also can live a long time – up to 2,000 years. It is found at lower elevations, where temperatures are warmer.

Sami and Layla were very distant to each other.

Sami kept himself distant.

Sami and Layla started becoming distant from each other.

The Starshade is an immense, folding iris that has been proposed as a way to block light from distant stars. It would unfurl to a diameter of about 85 feet (26 meters) in space, about the size of a standard baseball diamond.

NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our knowledge of Pluto when it flew past that distant world in July 2015.

Sami has been distant and depressed for weeks.

In the distant hollow on the left, half hidden by the mist, the two thin towers of Baskerville Hall rose above the trees. They were the only signs of human life which I could see, save only those prehistoric huts which lay thickly upon the slopes of the hills.

We have to constantly work to make sure government is not a collection of distant, detached institutions, but is connected and responsive to the everyday concerns of our people.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown but longed for still. And his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

So fired with rage, the Trojans' scanty train / by fierce Achilles and the Greeks unslain / she barred from Latium, and in evil strait / for many a year, on many a distant main / they wandered, homeless outcasts, tost by fate.