Sentence examples for a distant motorway from inspiring English sources

I've always thought that the sounds of the landscape we inhabit – from the birdcalls we wake to, to the rain falling on a weaving shed roof, via the hum of a distant motorway or the thrust of machinery – must influence the music we make and want to hear, or even the music we want to rebel against.

A distant siren cried.

A distant foghorn blows.

They finished a distant third.

This is a distant prospect.

That seems a distant prospect.

Catalina Island, a distant mirage.

Efficiency is a distant dream.

That's a distant dream".

Stanford was a distant fourth.

Texas is a distant third.