Sentence examples for down distant from inspiring English sources

Websites help amateur sleuths track down distant relatives.

It started life in 1983 as a Ronald Reagan "dream," fuelled by Edward Teller briefings and movies old ("Murder in the Air," a 1940 thriller in which Reagan stops a spy from stealing an "inertia projector" that can shoot down distant aircraft) and new ("Star Wars").

The site helps students and parents find good schools – from Kindergarten to college – near them and hunt down distant schools that might not be on their radar.

Giant raindrops fall with loud taps on banana leaves, strange flowers with heady perfume bloom just for a day and waterfalls drape down distant hills like strands of tinsel.

Future studies are needed to determine whether targeted overexpression of Pfn1 in preformed tumours slows down distant metastasis.

The bookmakers had Sochi down a distant second in the betting, way behind Pyeongchang.

In preparation for the ceremony, Green-Wood tracked down two distant relatives of Mrs. Farrar in Sweden.

These taut little pictures are astonishing, acutely observed wartime vignettes: a recruit listening, eyes down, to distant music; a stiff young officer confronting hostile prisoners of war.

In fact, this corner of Europe is experiencing the disharmonies due to transplantation known till now only to British and American colonies set down in distant lands.

The baseball season tends to sap leg strength, and suddenly, Wilcox said, he has found the spring in his legs in those last months to chase down a distant fly ball.

The longest, most monotonous trains I've ever seen — three hundred-plus identical gondolas, having travelled down from distant Pilbara mines, piled high with iron ore — creep slowly into an enormous shed, where a rotary car dumper seizes and rolls them.