How to Use far-off in a Sentence

far-off

adjective

• That’s all a far-off dream, but Google just brought us one step closer.
  — Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• The chants of those in a far-off room grow with intensity.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Better to be able to pop next door at night than try to race down to a far-off basement.
  — Simon Usborne, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• Aonuma said this was just one of many ways to get to these far-off islands in the sky.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
• The stuff of local lore and warm memories that stretch to the far-off blue horizon where the sparkling ocean meets the cobalt sky.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Yet despite the distance between them, the sun still holds sway over the far-off planet.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• More than one study has shown how far-off their estimates can be.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• The goal of Thursday’s gathering was to help those in far-off peril.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• Does the character randomly get a far-off look in their eyes and pause mid-sentence?
  — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023
• But Cook's financial struggles at the time made the idea of having a doula seem like a far-off luxury.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• One mother whose son attends P.S. 139 was offered a far-off shelter in Queens.
  — Jay Root Victor J. Blue, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• But what if your box is stuck in some far-off corner because that’s where your internet line enters the house?
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• The film illustrated my concept of adulthood, a then far-off realm.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• The guest, pale as a far-off planet, with silvery white skin and corn silk hair, has eyes of absolute transparent blue that search around the room, over the chairs and the stove, over the wife and the slave.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• So the stage is set for an epic drama set in feudal Japan with the first colonials arriving from far-off Europe.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Patients come from all corners of Lahore, from the sugarcane fields outside the city and from far-off villages.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
• Start making moves, even small ones, to reach any far-off destination that has always called your name.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• The lens snaps from near to distant subjects without hesitation on the a7R IV and takes just a split-second to go from a far-off subject to a close one.
  — PCMAG, 6 June 2024
• Dear Amy: My husband and I were far-off neighbors to an eccentric and very talented painter.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• Metal objects glinted, as did the windshields of cars passing silently on far-off streets.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• The far-off storm flashing on the horizon expels my subliminal rage.
  — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• But that’s still a far-off vision, Pavlick said, with much more research necessary before the spectrometer is set to head up to space at the end of this decade.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Of course, there’s also Connor Roy (Alan Ruck), whose already far-off chances are fully dismissed less than halfway into the episode.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• Republicans have long discussed the far-off notion of what Trumpism without Mr. Trump would look like.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The story supposedly takes place in the far-off future, yet even Villeneuve’s version is filled with elements from our here and now.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2024
• But the departure cannot happen as, lying in a far-off forest is Nam’s father, a soldier, whose remains they’re compelled to find.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 May 2024
• There are a variety of instruments with roots in far-off lands to inspire, and visual storytelling pops up here and there, say, with the presentations of the sun.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• In particular, one that deals with companies based in far-off places could turn out to be very lucrative, so widen your search radius.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• And, as more people move there from far-off islands — for better jobs, for good hospitals, good schools — even more of them will be packed into a few areas, sitting above the swollen tides.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• The far-off setting emphasizes the lavish and luxe, though the narrative is cheaply woven and fairly threadbare.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024