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
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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Through the war, the well-to-do English reader with two pounds, twelve shilling and six pence to spare could follow news from this faraway land across a series of maps.
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April White, JSTOR Daily, 17 June 2026
But the global media had descended upon this faraway island to cover a crisis that seemed to be taking place almost entirely on TV.
—Joshua Hunt, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2026
And while the women of Chinatown’s faraway past may have daydreamed and even plotted their escapes, See keeps going back.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Because microlensing depends on one-off geometric alignments, the faraway object that caused the event by passing so perfectly through our line of sight can never be seen again.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
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April White, JSTOR Daily, 17 June 2026
But the global media had descended upon this faraway island to cover a crisis that seemed to be taking place almost entirely on TV.
—Joshua Hunt, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2026
And while the women of Chinatown’s faraway past may have daydreamed and even plotted their escapes, See keeps going back.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Because microlensing depends on one-off geometric alignments, the faraway object that caused the event by passing so perfectly through our line of sight can never be seen again.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for faraway
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faraway. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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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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