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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a distant place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location that is far away from the speaker or the subject being discussed.
Example: "She often dreams of traveling to a distant place where she can find peace and solitude."
Alternatives: "a faraway location" or "an remote area".
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A distant place, a puzzled painter.
The prayer and the buffalo evoke a distant place.
"Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him," she said.
"Don't go there," the know-it-all, stay-at-home finger wagger says of many a distant place.
Even at the dead end of the tunnel in Manhattan there is graffiti, something familiar in a distant place.
All dictionary definitions of "exotic" have two strands: "from a distant place," and "striking and attractive because unfamiliar".
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Seth Kantner's first novel, ORDINARY WOLVES (Milkweed, $22), is a magnificently realized story about a boy's coming-of-age in a difficult, distant place.
"I went to a most distant place.
She hopes that the museum will bring Africa, long misunderstood as a "dark, distant place," out of the shadows, she said.
However, they describe acquiring complete control of the club as "a far distant place".
But all the same, Griffin's boyhood seems a cold, distant place from the outside.
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