Sentence examples for a distant branch from inspiring English sources

And then he returned his gaze to a flutter on a distant branch.

On a distant branch of the TV family tree, Gogglebox could also be seen as an extension of Big Brother, building on to the franchise the TV lounge that the BB housemates were denied.

What moves these volunteers to wake up before dawn, step into multiple layers of long johns, and spend what, in a normal year, would have been up to 12 hours squinting through binoculars for a flutter on a distant branch?

They include Mary's two sisters; their dead mother (whose last act was to shun Mary); a feminist psychotherapist who is an unwitting source of more fish imagery (with an earring "tangled in her hair like a helpless sea creature suspended in a tuna net"); and a Salem witch nestled on a distant branch of the family tree.

Among them, 5 strains (W7, W15, W24, W28 and W36) clustered in a distant branch near serotypes 12, 45 and 78; 7 strains (W6, W10, W11, W12, W17, W23 and W25) in distant branch near serotypes 51, 65 and 71; strains W8, W9, W20 and W38 formed a new branch, and strain W33 was the lone member of a new branch.

As expected, the aquaporins so far characterized in symbiotic fungi belong to a distant branch, compared to plant aquaporins, which demonstrated a different evolutionary story.

The Alawites, at about 1.5 million strong in Syria and representing about 12percentt of the country's population, are considered by some to be a distant offshoot of the Shiite branch of Islam.

If I meet someone called Jessie McLennan, I know we are related somehow, but I haven't any idea whether she is a long lost cousin or someone from a more distant branch of the family tree.

Teika was born to a minor and distant branch of the aristocratic and courtly clan, the Fujiwara, in 1162, sometime after the Fujiwara regents had lost their political pre-eminence in the Imperial court during the Hōgen Rebellion.

In these trees, Xav lies between the X. oryzae clade and Xac, and Xac occupies a distinct, more distant branch.

Watch the video above to hear all about what Jerry thinks of postal workers, or, as he describes them, "A dazed and confused distant branch of the Cub Scouts".