Sentence examples for distant wild from inspiring English sources
The runners trudged upward, ignoring the bitter cold, the twilit vistas, the call of some distant wild thing attacking its breakfast.
Nature is not something separate and distant: wild beasts live among us, unreliant, adaptive, among train tracks, cemeteries, industrial estates, domestic dogs and cats, and fireworks.
This anthology is filled with wonderful, quirky essays – a look at the little-known Jewish community in the city, a harrowing account of life in the distant "wild west" suburbs, an account of the day a ship carrying 600 tonnes of explosives blew up in the dock, throwing all of Bombay into panic.
This pattern reminded us of some intermediate genotypes when we created recombinant inbred lines between japonica and indica cultivars, and may imply that there was a critical crossing between relatively distant wild species when japonica rice domestication began.
Since human eyes are more sensitive to red than to violet light, low-latitude auroras are visually characterized by a spectacular red color, reminiscent of the color of distant wild fires (Loomis 1861).
Functional homologs of RB have also been identified in other phylogenetically distant wild potato species, such as S. verrucosum [21], confirming that this gene is likely of ancient origin [18] and suggesting functional conservation of the RB gene throughout the evolution of potato.
"Ah, the distant Congo, my dear Alexey Ivanych, such distant wilds — you know... Imagine a village in the woods, women with pendulous breasts, and the shimmer of water, black as karakul, amid the huts.
Expecting that hybrid vigor (heterosis) would increase the vitality, we outcrossed two see-through strains (SK and STIII) with a genetically distant wild-type strain (HNI).
Bloodshot eyes, matted hair and beard, skin puffy and sallow, eyes distant yet wild: within days, Mussorgsky (1839-81) would be dead of drink, aged 42.
For both insects, there are sources of resistance within distant or wild relatives although the latter pest has been harder to control genetically [ 5].
In the Iron Age, these bogs were portals to distant worlds, wilder realms.
