Distant used in a sentence

Distant in a sentence as an adjective

Give it to courier who takes it to a distant internet cafe and sends it out.

A lot has been written and said about Bradley Manning but it always seemed such a distant thing.

I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as "doing everything right".

He doesn't have to deal with many of the challenges that most newly-fired people do - like finding a job in the not-too-distant future, etc.

Seen from a sufficiently distant paradigm, any web framework is the old, broken, inneficient way of doing things.

“Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

It's so, so easy to write Haskell code that's safe until you change something distant in the system, which changes when things get lazily-evaluated, and now you have a very serious resource leak.

That's tough.- There's no promise a bacteria has a phage associated with it, and synthetic phages are, at this point, a pretty distant prospect.- When bacterial cell walls rupture, they create endotoxins.

It is the riskiest of gambles by definition, requiring inordinate expenditures of time and resources in the present for a chance at some distant breakthrough decades or even centuries in the future.

You can handle Plutonium in a glove box, but with used Thorium fuel containing U-232 you'd need to handle it via robotic manipulators in a heavily shielded area distant from humans, except that gamma radiation kills electronics like nobody's business, which is a bit of a catch-22.

I have a crappy apartment in a perfect location; most of my coworkers have beautiful, new houses in distant, desolate suburbs; and a few blocks away from me there are beautiful high-rise condos that are nicer than my coworkers' houses and more centrally located than my crappy apartment.

They're things like* technical debt* familiarity with the codebase and problem domain* interruptions, distractions, multi-tasking and other office environment issues* choice of language - but this is a distant fourth compared to other the other threeOn top of all this, the Economist article is a thinly-veiled press release for tenXer, which is itself nothing more than an exercise in testerone-fueled egotism.