Sentence examples for distant, because from inspiring English sources

The programme-makers keep in touch, but contact is distant because they want to be surprised when they return.

In the tune, those notes actually sound kind of distant because of the harmonies, they don't sound like the tonic and dominant.

But that level of capacity seems distant because each party needed to make it happen — customers, software developers and Internet providers — is waiting for the others to show up first.

Another possibility is the current mayor, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, who was close to Ahmed Wali, but whom many Kandaharis describe as distant because he spent many years in the United States.

(My father-in-law probably thought Norwegian more distant because Copenhageners hear more Swedish than they do Norwegian, even though my mother-in-law was probably right that Bokmål Norwegian is in fact closer to Danish).

Still, for many across the region, the Argentine debacle remains distant because the deep problems of their own countries -- like a civil conflict in Colombia or political uncertainty in Venezuela -- overshadow the crisis in the Southern Cone. "We are sympathetic," said Rafael Sandrea, a businessman in Caracas.

Not just because the event is growing distant, but because, he noted, the family section at the Mass keeps getting bigger, filling up with people who did not even exist in 1978.

The vast majority of esophageal cancers are fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avid; the primary use for positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with esophageal cancer is in the detection of distant metastases, because known distant metastatic disease precludes surgical resection.

At the end, he is alone in China not because it is distant but because he has driven everyone else away.

Unexpectedly, this effect was systemic because distant as well as draining lymph nodes were involved and inflammation specific, because no sequestration of the adoptively transferred, in vivo conditioned monocytes to lymphoid tissues was observed in normal mice.

Mexico City is vulnerable to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds.