How to Use far-off in a Sentence

far-off

adjective
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  • Shaquille O’Neal has had his heart stolen by a far-off city!
    — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
  • For young people, this can mean that a good score might seem far-off.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That’s all a far-off dream, but Google just brought us one step closer.
    — Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The chants of those in a far-off room grow with intensity.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Better to be able to pop next door at night than try to race down to a far-off basement.
    — Simon Usborne, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Aonuma said this was just one of many ways to get to these far-off islands in the sky.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The stuff of local lore and warm memories that stretch to the far-off blue horizon where the sparkling ocean meets the cobalt sky.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Yet despite the distance between them, the sun still holds sway over the far-off planet.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
  • More than one study has shown how far-off their estimates can be.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • The goal of Thursday’s gathering was to help those in far-off peril.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Freedom is a far-off dream when one’s own very survival is in question.
    — Mustafa Barghouti, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Does the character randomly get a far-off look in their eyes and pause mid-sentence?
    — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But Cook's financial struggles at the time made the idea of having a doula seem like a far-off luxury.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • One mother whose son attends P.S. 139 was offered a far-off shelter in Queens.
    — Jay Root Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But what if your box is stuck in some far-off corner because that’s where your internet line enters the house?
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The film illustrated my concept of adulthood, a then far-off realm.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The guest, pale as a far-off planet, with silvery white skin and corn silk hair, has eyes of absolute transparent blue that search around the room, over the chairs and the stove, over the wife and the slave.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • So the stage is set for an epic drama set in feudal Japan with the first colonials arriving from far-off Europe.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • However, none of this means that knotless braids need to be banished to the far-off lands of irredeemable hair heaven.
    — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Patients come from all corners of Lahore, from the sugarcane fields outside the city and from far-off villages.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In that part of the West the boys had never even heard of Thanksgiving, and their elders knew of it only as a festival of far-off New England.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Start making moves, even small ones, to reach any far-off destination that has always called your name.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The lens snaps from near to distant subjects without hesitation on the a7R IV and takes just a split-second to go from a far-off subject to a close one.
    — PCMAG, 6 June 2024
  • Dear Amy: My husband and I were far-off neighbors to an eccentric and very talented painter.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Taken from a far-off vantage point, the photos capture Sweeney in a bikini lounging around the pool of her Florida home.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Metal objects glinted, as did the windshields of cars passing silently on far-off streets.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The far-off storm flashing on the horizon expels my subliminal rage.
    — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Ultimately, a foolproof test for fake wine remains a far-off idea.
    — Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Until that maneuver, however, Blue Ghost has been busy above the big blue Earth, beaming home beautiful images of our planet, as well as views of its far-off final destination, the moon.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Iran has burned its fingers, and all that even nuclear weapons would bring is a new level of stand-off with Israel–which is in any case a rather far-off country that many ordinary Iranians do not regard as an enemy.
    — Max Rodenbeck, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025

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