Sentence examples for a distant landmass from inspiring English sources

With only two taxa involved, the alternative, albeit less parsimonious hypothesis that they diverged on a distant landmass and colonised the islands independently, has to be considered [ 2].

alta, O. glumaepatula, O. grandiglumis, and O. latifolia) cannot be explained by land migration alone because they are most closely related to taxa occurring on distant landmasses.

Opposite Ms. Hammond's puzzle painting are some of Russell Crotty's ethereal and spooky drawings of a distant world where a craggy landmass is clustered along the bottom of the planet.

And people who never travel tend to imagine, when trouble erupts in a distant country, that its entire landmass has seized into convulsions.

A distant foghorn blows.

A distant siren cried.

They finished a distant third.

This is a distant prospect.

That seems a distant prospect.

(Vodafone is a distant third).

It has a distant quality.