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Example sentences for "distant part"

  • We were for some time in a distant part of the mountains, and our wild adventurous kind of life hit my fancy wonderfully, and diverted my thoughts.

  • When I had nearly attained the age of sixteen, I was suffered, on one occasion, to accompany one of the brethren on a mission to a distant part of the country.

  • One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the neighborhood, he took what he considered a short cut homewards through the swamp.

  • Your father and I have transacted business, and you yourself have shown me hospitality in a distant part of the world I would not be unkind to you, Mr Saxon, and I pity you very much indeed because of your relationship to Miss Brooke.

  • It was three months later, and all the events which make up this story seemed to have passed into a distant part of Annie Brooke's life, when she and John Saxon had an earnest talk together.

  • Her table was, however, situated in a distant part of the room, and Annie did not know that she was watched.

  • A medicine may occasionally produce pain or sensation at a distant part, without reaching that part.

  • A medicine may occasionally produce muscular contraction at a distant part, without reaching that part.

  • The result of this latter experiment proves not only that entry into a distant part of the system is sufficient for the action of a medicine, but that it will operate when introduced into the blood.

  • At Lund he would have been in a distant part of the country, parted from his friend and out of touch with the things that were the first concern of his life.

  • The King was away in a distant part of the country when they sent to him in haste with the message that the queen was dying.

  • The King awoke from his dream, and bade him go at once to a wise old hermit who lived in a distant part of the country.

  • The ladies laughed at what they called his compliment, while I was so much abashed that, giving the flowers into the hands of one of the ladies, I retreated to a distant part of the garden.

  • If the death had taken place in a distant part of the country it would make no difference, so long as the burial place was there.

  • Suddenly a loud rapping, in a distant part of the room, spelled out, "Why the devil do you ask questions after you have been told done?

  • Pass a fine needle and thread through a part of the skin over the muscle, which moves, and attach the other end of the thread by a sticking plaster to a distant part.

  • The pain, which occasions some fits of epilepsy, is felt for a time in a distant part of the system, as in a toe or heel; and is said by the patient gradually to ascend to the head, before the general convulsions commence.

  • Whether it was the strange scene, occurring in a distant part of the world, or sad memories which were recalled by these anniversary days, seldom has a service touched me more.

  • While in Yedo we attended a meeting of missionaries, English, Scotch, and American, in a distant part of the city, and in the evening paid a visit to Prof.

  • Large steamers in the river and warehouses along its bank, show that the spirit of modern enterprise has invaded even this distant part of Asia.

  • Should a visiter come in to see one of the boarders who may be sitting near you, change your place, and take a seat in a distant part of the room.

  • If you have a friend who is in somewhat precarious health, and who is afraid of being out in the night air, or who lives in a distant part of the town, invite her to dinner, or to pass the day, rather than to tea.

  • The dance ended near night, and those natives who lived in a distant part of the Island, after gratifying their curiosity by gazing upon us, and even feeling of our skins, took their departure.

  • The reader may form some idea of our feelings when we were informed that Hussey was to be taken by his master and family, to a distant part of the Island!

  • All those suspected of complicity were in the morning marched, under one of their officers, to a distant part of the island on the pretence of collecting wild fowl feathers.

  • When, at length, Emily made Annette comprehend her danger, they hurried towards Annette's room, which was in a distant part of the castle.

  • In John Vanbrugh's garments he could make his way to a distant part of the country, and take another name.

  • In a distant part of the country where you are not known.

  • Katherine waited not to hear the close of this sentence, but walked to a distant part of the room to conceal the burning blushes that covered her countenance.

  • Numberless were the uneasy glances that were thrown from both officers and men at their commander and the pilot, who still continued their secret communion in a distant part of the vessel.

  • At first the boy ranchers thought it might be Old Billee Dobb who, with Buck Tooth, had been out to a distant part of the valley to see if he could get on the track of a mountain lion which had been killing cattle.

  • They fooled us, Bud," said Old Billee, riding in from a distant part of the valley.

  • Snake and Yellin' Kid had ridden off on an all-night tour of duty, to a, distant part of the ranch.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    distant about; distant country; distant cousin; distant land; distant lands; distant object; distant part; distant parts; distant period; distant place; distant point; distant points; distant relative; distant thunder; distant view; eight feet; enormous expense; getting home; high character; human work; lemon extract; prison life; severe pain; shorten sail; three slices; turn again