Sentence examples for distant branch from inspiring English sources

And then he returned his gaze to a flutter on a distant branch.

On a distant branch of the TV family tree, Gogglebox could also be seen as an extension of Big Brother, building on to the franchise the TV lounge that the BB housemates were denied.

What moves these volunteers to wake up before dawn, step into multiple layers of long johns, and spend what, in a normal year, would have been up to 12 hours squinting through binoculars for a flutter on a distant branch?

They include Mary's two sisters; their dead mother (whose last act was to shun Mary); a feminist psychotherapist who is an unwitting source of more fish imagery (with an earring "tangled in her hair like a helpless sea creature suspended in a tuna net"); and a Salem witch nestled on a distant branch of the family tree.

If I meet someone called Jessie McLennan, I know we are related somehow, but I haven't any idea whether she is a long lost cousin or someone from a more distant branch of the family tree.

Watch the video above to hear all about what Jerry thinks of postal workers, or, as he describes them, "A dazed and confused distant branch of the Cub Scouts".

For all its insect life, the place also seemed extremely hoggy, with tracks and rooting and occasional distant branch-cracking sounds.

Noctowls hooted from distant branches as the moon rose.

Diversity was as easy as glancing around the room, not reaching into distant branches of the family tree.

This was coupled with an anxious compulsion to update his scrapbook with mental snapshots of the continuing makeover of the railway and acquaint himself with distant branches of its family tree while there was still time.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is considering extensions to some of the most distant branches of its system, and those extensions, if built, will allow people to live even farther from the city's center, creating new, non-dense suburbs where all other travel will be by automobile, much of it to malls and schools and gas stations that will be built to accommodate them.