How to Use faraway in a Sentence

faraway

adjective

• My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
• Travel back through the mists of time to the faraway land of 2019.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• The stress in the Middle East has helped raise the cost of shipping even on faraway routes.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• At least not for one of the long and faraway trips that have been my routine for decades.
  — Ann Hermes, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2021
• The polar bear was just a faraway speck in a frozen white expanse.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• Kostikova would just sit and listen to the sounds of her faraway home.
  — National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
• The driver, who had a faraway look in his eyes, moved in slow motion.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 19 May 2021
• Mom would ride in the passenger seat, a faraway look in her eyes.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• Readers say books can take you to faraway places from the comfort of your home.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
• The dream of a faraway island always becomes the dream of the next island over.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• The Wordy Traveler offers the best of both – books and faraway places.
  — Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Sometimes the faint sound of an engine—a truck or a tank on the faraway mountain road—but that was rare.
  — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Sitting in that faraway room in Pittsburgh, Sandy was at a loss.
  — CBS News, 5 May 2023
• There were no wines by the glass, no long list of selections from faraway places.
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• The gas tragedy is a faraway one to them, consigned to history.
  — Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
• That faraway shore’s not looking too far for Jonathan Groff!
  — Luke Chinman, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• And perhaps none are more worried for them than the faraway women who could have been them - the sisters, the cousins, the friends.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• For most non-South Asians, caste practice in the U.S. is a faraway and foreign concept.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• The full Moon of the 5th tunes you in to dreams, faraway places and vision quests—so ignore petty annoyances that are in the air.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2023
• Not some remote, faraway place or even a place that is near, but a place that is here within.
  — Kristin Clark Taylor, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
• But music wasn’t even a faraway dream for Nwigwe a decade ago.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2019
• African elephants can only rarely be caught and sent to faraway zoos.
  — National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Word of this gold-rich land spread and spawned tall tales from faraway lands, like the ancient Greek myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
• Ash and pumice rained across the Mediterranean, and tsunami waves rolled onto faraway shores in Crete.
  — Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
• Make lemon bars in some faraway place from lemons foraged off the side of Mulholland.
  — Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• The world is your oyster, and it’s filled with amazing, faraway places that are begging you to visit them!
  — Julia Shiplett, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
• Or even an echo of an old story from a faraway land—of some people tired and lost in the wilderness, looking for a room at the inn.
  — Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
• The country felt like this faraway land where many Americans fought and died.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• During the middle of the day when the sun was brightest, visitors swore they had been transported to a faraway tropical island.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2025
• Like Twin Peaks, The Return opened with two murders, when a kissing couple were mauled by a mysterious monster who emerges from a glass box, and a body without a head and a head without a body were found rotting in a faraway room.
  — K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025