Sentence examples for a distant thing. from inspiring English sources

A leg jerks but it's a distant thing, floating to a different orbit.

In countless villages such as the sleepy hilltop one of Owo, where Fadoyebo lived, the bloodshed had been a distant thing rumbling on in remote lands.

Buying a house and starting a family seems like a distant thing". Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, fears that graduates emerging from university this year will fare even worse than Philips and his cohorts.

To these Iraqis, the debate over whether the war has been just or unjust, whether the blame lies with Saddam Hussein, or the Americans, or the insurgents, is a distant thing, carrying no promise of relief from their pain.

And that's both a personal thing and a distant thing.

She said the imagery in the film is not a distant thing for her.

That's how I exposed myself to the arts — New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing". A few years on, he made his first pilgrimage to Mecca.

At 2.5 million light years away, it is the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye but you need a dark site, well away from any street lamps.

"I always felt like it was this distant thing that I couldn't touch.

He made whatever awaited us after high school seem like the most thrilling, yet distant, thing ever.

And it shows that slavery is not this remote and distant thing, but part of our intimate and personal family histories".