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Example sentences for "distant point"

  • Sometimes it is convenient to supply current to a group of lines centering at a certain point from a source of current located at a distant point.

  • Physics) Defn: An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

  • The starting point is equality of rates from such a distant point as New York (O) to all places along the Mississippi from A to G.

  • Numerous instances could be cited where identical products are redistributed after a long carriage to and from a distant point in the very area of original production.

  • But the practice is less defensible where the identical product is redistributed after long carriage to and from a distant point.

  • The complaint in this case arose from the fact that freight rates to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from eastern cities were higher than to Nashville, although the latter was the more distant point.

  • The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun.

  • The production of sensation or pain at a distant point.

  • The production of muscular contraction at a distant point.

  • To make an expedition to a distant point, to prevent the occupation of territory by a foreign government in the south Atlantic or the Pacific.

  • A very simple drill would be the mere transfer of the fleet to a distant point, when in supposititious danger from an enemy, employing by day and night the scouting and screening operations that such a trip would demand.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant point" 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:
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