Sentence examples for become a remote from inspiring English sources

My father had become a remote, hovering figure, not unaffectionate but slightly threatening.

Apple mints money because its hugely profitable iPhone has, in effect, become a remote control for many people's digital lives.

Stuck in his compound, without a telephone or the internet, he had anyway become a remote figure.

So it seems a shame that, for many, Socrates has become a remote, lofty kind of a figure.

People are so inured to 15-second novelties that, by the time one registers broadly, it has typically become a remote blip on the cognoscenti's radar screens.

As mobile phones are used for more and more everyday activities and even become a "remote control for life", as some in the industry believe it may come down to whom people are most inclined to trust.

The Apple TV can also become a remote-control hub for the company's smart home, Internet of Things control system called HomeKit.

My beloved sport became a remote experience, lived through text on a page and images on a television screen.

The smartphone then becomes a remote able to skip tracks, select different albums and change the volume.

Later it became a remote outpost for missionaries, naturalists and, well into the early 20th century, for cattle ranching.

But I'd bet my money on a deal getting done long before even a tiny, technical default becomes a remote possibility.