Sentence examples for a distant land from inspiring English sources

An exploration is made of Purila, a distant land known only to astronomers.

For many residents in the heavily Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Bushwick is a distant land.

Though removed by the production to a distant land, these are the traditional characters, traditionally presented.

Why, indeed, should a man be morally improved by massacring farmers in a distant land?

Each term has its own tangled history, like the etymology of a loanword that's drifted in from a distant land.

But of course he will meet her again on one of those apparently pointless academic jaunts to a distant land.

Together our nations are standing and sacrificing for this high goal in a distant land at this very hour.

"There is a sense in some places, particularly New York City, that upstate is a distant land," he said.

When an ensemble visits from a distant land it is a de facto emissary of that country's musical culture.

Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" had the air of an urgent report, borne in desperation from a distant land.

Staten Island catcher Mitch Evans also came from a distant land speaking a foreign language -- in his case, Australian.