You and I were distantly related to Hugh Mainwaring, but what chance would we have against these people with no more of a claim than ours?
She had come to Fair Oaks some fifteen years previous to this time, dressed in deep mourning, accompanied by her infant son, about three years of age, and it was generally understood that she was distantly related to Mr. Mainwaring.
Seated near him, in an immense arm-chair which he filled admirably, was William Mainwaring Thornton, of London, also a guest of Hugh Mainwaring and distantlyconnected with the two cousins.
I allude to untiring love and charity between not only members of one household, but all relations or connexions, however distantly connected.
I was most sensible of her civility, and thanked her for her kindness, which she politely but distantly acknowledged.
Him they had met at the house of a friend of the Tinleys (a Colonel's wife distantly connected with great houses).
Emilia grew distantly aware that the policeman and his wife talked of her and watched her with combined observation.
In this respect it exceeds the kangaroo rats and pocket mice of the United States, species to which it is distantly related.
The chunky body, short legs, and almost total lack of a tail are more like those of the guinea pig to which it is more distantly allied.
A people of the Gran Chaco in the northern part of the Argentine Republic, and distantlyrelated to the Abipones.
If the surmise he had distantly spied was correct, Miss Middleton would have been caught in the storm midway to her destination.
Evidently in a whim, and to suit his mock-heroic purpose, Milton chose a peculiar form of mixed verse, distantly suggested by the choruses of the Greek dramatists, and more closely by some precedents in Latin poetry.
Though you might with justice have shone on me as 'coldly and distantly as a star,' you have treated me almost as a sister might.
You have never shone on me 'coldly and distantly like a star,' but again and again have stooped from the height of your heavenly character that you might lift me out of the mire.
Not distantly connected with them by the ties of blood, the Abbe de Boisguerin had been called from Italy, where he had long resided, to superintend their education shortly after their mother's death.
And yet it must be so, for to my knowledge there is but one family of Hohenwalds in Saxony, and I ought to know, for I am distantly connected with them myself.
The rays or skates are distantly related to sharks, but are specially remarkable for being broad and flat--occasionally broader than they are long--owing to the immense development of the fin flaps at the sides.
A tree in appearance like a conifer, but in reality belonging to an isolated and very peculiar sub-class of flowering plants, distantly akin to oaks and catkin-bearing trees.
In the arrangement of their teeth they are distantly related to kangaroos, which are really only phalangers, whose far-back ancestors have taken to a life on the ground.
A young man of merit and accomplishments, but unaided by the powerful pretensions of suitable fortune, cherished a passion for the young lady, to whom he had frequent access, on account of his being distantly related to her.
Adams had the greatest admiration for Macaulay, but he felt that any one who should even distantly imitate Macaulay would perish in self-contempt.
She is English; on her mother's side, distantly related to Queen Victoria.
Alakayeff, then living at Ufa to look after a lawsuit, who used to visit at the Zubins' house; she was distantly related to Alexyei Stepanitch and had always taken a great interest in him.
And--besides, I was a little delayed by the visit of a charming Comtesse de Sorel who came to Los Angeles, and thought she might be distantly related to poor dear Louis.
Her heart--or some distantly related muscles round the organ--had suddenly warmed towards the man.
Of course he had to play second to her, and not unwillingly; but he reflected passingly on the instinctive push of her rich and sparkling voluble fancy to the initiative, which women do not like in a woman, and men prefer to distantly admire.
But it was hard to remember his feet or, when he did recall them, to relate their movements even distantly to the music.
The smile with which he accompanied the simple words might be enigmatic, it might hint of secret sorrows, but it was plain enough that these could not ever so distantly relate to a need for food.
Madge unsuspectingly; his phrase was ambiguous; she did not evendistantly guess what he meant.
No, but you conceive it distantly possible that one day you may be.
Following these, came a large tribe which did not belong to the Indo-European family, but was distantly related to the Finns and the Turks.
All of these four families were distantly related, as can be proved by the languages which they spoke.
Montenegro had spent much on sending Prince Danilo to attend the funeral, and Princess Militza is distantly related to Queen Mary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
