The phrase "a distant town" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a town that is far away from the speaker's current location or context.
Example: "After a long journey, we finally arrived at a distant town that seemed untouched by modern life."
Alternatives: "a remote town" or "an far-off town".
He worked in a distant town, as a miner.
An attenuated tree rises physically and metaphorically above a distant town.
Takumi was taken to relatives in a distant town, in shock and unable even to talk for days.
Still, the land here exerts a pull that the prospect of life in a distant town nearer her daughter does not.
Rabbi Hager explained his position by recalling a story about his grandfather, a grand rabbi, who had visited followers in a distant town.
No more queueing for hours in a distant town and bribing officials with money you don't have to obtain paperwork that won't be recognised if you move to another state looking for work.
The story sounded far-fetched: OLPC researchers, working with a team of technicians in Ethiopia, created a special "hut" covered in solar panels where the children of a few distant towns could go to recharge some toys they were given.
The hut stood on its own patch of land, which was walled off by stakes, stones brought from the shore of Lake Onega and piled up haphazardly, and rusty sheets of roof iron, probably carried here from some distant town by a gale.
Earlier that morning, he told me, a middle-aged man from the distant town of Tobruk had driven up to the clinic and asked him how to get to Al Uqaylah, a small way station twenty-five miles down the road.
The workshop specialises in beefy Greek gods for cruise-ship ballrooms and resin-cast fake bronzes for distant town squares (one, a Nordic dragon and its slayer, languishes amid the nettles, like a dead Reliant Robin).
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