faraway
adjective
far·away
ˈfär-ə-ˌwā 
1
: lying at a great distance : remote
faraway lands
2
: dreamy, abstracted
a faraway look in her eyes
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Examples of faraway in a Sentence
My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
Seen first as a clawed, reptilian hand reaching out from under the surface of an Amazonian river, the Creature (Ricou Browning) is a triumph of monster design, a humanoid with the body of a man and the head of a fish, complete with fins and cold, faraway eyes.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Frau Hermann sipped her tea with a sudden faraway look.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Previous iterations of this biennial also presented Toronto as the locus of histories of faraway places but, with the world building grown unwieldy, inadequately explained why these stories belong together.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faraway. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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faraway
adjective
far·away
ˌfär-ə-ˌwā
1
: remote entry 1 sense 1, distant
faraway lands
2
: preoccupied sense 1, dreamy
a faraway look
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