Sentence examples for a distant time from inspiring English sources

He had trained with an old friend in a distant city, in a distant time.

Instead, it is affixed firmly to a distant time, to a place far from Pemberton Road.

She remains that, even though a February 1999 Todayy" show interview seems like an echo from a distant time.

The New York premiere of David Crumb's "Vestiges of a Distant Time" and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony frame the program.

She steps out of a distant time, but one with perhaps a disquieting echo for today: the Great Depression.

Griffiths talks of a "fatigue" in South Africa over most matches being in a distant time zone.

Today Gilbert resembles, if not quite a contemporary of Alma's, then someone plucked from a similarly distant time.

But the script also evokes a more distant time, when deities were mortals magnified.

But will word of a mass shooting — leaving us curious, sad, enraged, and frightened again — ever seem like news from a different, distant time?

Should Ireland reunite, whether in the aftermath of Brexit or in a more distant time, the moment of reconciliation, of acceptance and forgiveness, may well occur over a grave at Murlough Bay.

"Submarine" is based on the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne, which is set in the late nineteen-nineties, but the writer-director Richard Ayoade moved the story back to a strange, distant time of typewriters and tape cassettes perhaps the early eighties.