Sentence examples for distant times from inspiring English sources

"distant times" can be used in written English
This phrase is often used to evoke a feeling of nostalgia, as if looking back on a time far in the past. For example, "Her mother spoke often of distant times, when life was simpler and the streets were safer."

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The walk is steeped in history, with the sights conjuring up the atmosphere of distant times.

But even those distant times, the Kurds say, pale beside what exists today.

They move gracefully back and forth between different places and different — often impossibly distant times.

By transposing contemporary anxieties onto distant times he allows us to feel them afresh.

I thought of distant times and places and people, and I knew I would circle on my father.

But all novels are beholden to readers of the present, even those set in distant times and other worlds.

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The outside world is distant; time feels suspended.

He had trained with an old friend in a distant city, in a distant time.

Instead, it is affixed firmly to a distant time, to a place far from Pemberton Road.

Perkins and half her players are operating in distant time zones.

And they did so in that seemingly distant time when the years began with 19.

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