Sentence examples for a distant track from inspiring English sources

The change was evident enough on April 21 when Brown's Hotel, the pub where Thomas jotted verse and took his beers at a corner table (now dwarfed by a wide-screen television tuned, one recent afternoon, to horse racing from a distant track), was sold at auction by Tommy Watts, 73, who had owned it for 34 years.

He recalls, as a child in Norwich, running down a dirt road in his pajamas, looking at Sputnik 2 track a distant path in the predawn sky.

Before we can make contact with the group, the swarm of watches takes off again, and the main group is gone, stringing its way out along the distant track.

But the only way to be sure whether a dangerous wave is headed towards a distant coastline is to track it across the open ocean.America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAAA) hopes to do just that.

Blindfold a harbor seal, clap headphones on its ears, and the keen hunter will still be able to track a distant fish, using its whiskers to detect the ripples made by its prey.

The weekend's other debut in wide release, "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas," is thus far on track for a distant second place on the charts with an estimated $5.7 million in ticket sales.

The starting point was A Distant Shore, which was only eight tracks anyway – I thought I'd recorded demos but the label said, "Brilliant, let's release it as it is".

Certainly, you can keep tabs on fellow travelers using other methods, including cellphone programs (like AT&T's FamilyMap and Verizon's Family Locator) that let you keep a distant eye on family members, and tracking devices like the battery-powered GPS Atlas F100 and the Toddler Tag Child Locator, which uses radio frequency technology (your child gets a tag; you get a key chain transmitter).

We were told by attendants that parking at the Alamodome was by permit only, so we wound up on a distant unofficial lot next to the railroad tracks.

Kallon finally sought permission from his father, who dabbled in volleyball and track as a schoolboy but viewed athletics as a distant second in importance to education.

If the most recent polls are correct, Trudeau is on track to win big maybe even a majority with Harper a distant second, and the NDP in a even-more-distant third.