Sentence examples for tell distant from inspiring English sources

Maybe it will be possible to tell distant relatives in today's England what happened to their westward-bound ancestors.

But how to tell acquaintances, distant relatives?

I was quite taken aback by his comment, and I was telling a distant aunt of mine that I was surprised at this caste-prejudice, and she responded: "Oh, Iyengars are all like that," referring in turn to my relative's denomination.

In other songs, narrators watch themselves and others succumb to druggie temptations ("Sea of Love"), wonder if they're dying ("Heavenfaced") or drift toward separation and solitude; one of the least cryptic lyrics in Mr. Berninger's catalog is "Fireproof," with folky fingerpicking over a tolling piano, in which the singer tells a distant woman, "You keep a lot of secrets, and I keep none".

-What can artifacts tell us about distant civilizations?

But they happen when no one dares to tell truth to distant power.

Because the fish only get one look at the world per pulse, it wasn't clear how--or if--they could tell a large distant object from a small one nearby.

Many traditional cultures tell stories of dark distant days when women ruled, and made a harrowing mess of things.

SOME wounded soldiers can and will assess the human costs of war and tell us civilians, so distant from the fray, what it is really like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Because these differences exist, studying the mites could tell us how our distant ancestors migrated around the planet, and reveal which modern populations are most closely related.

Mention Apo Reef to seasoned Philippines travellers and chances are they will tell you about a distant diving paradise accessible only on expensive live-aboard trips.