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Example sentences for "far from"

  • For beasts it seems: yet that one beast which first Hath tasted envies not, but brings with joy The good befallen him, author unsuspect, Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.

  • He was always ready to help them, whether they lived near to him or far from him.

  • Thy body will disappear, but thy spirit, Jasmin, will never be far from us.

  • The sympathy of our sentiments has inspired you to praise me in a manner which I am far from meriting, Nevertheless, sir, I am proud of your sympathy.

  • For the Queen, far from making a secret of her affectionate friendship, took care to publish it to the world.

  • It was noticed that the palace etiquette, far from relaxing, grew ever more and more inflexible.

  • Was not such a course of conduct, far from being a temptation, simply "selon les regles?

  • No natural barrier exists in the regions which are now inhabited by the Anglo-Americans; the Alleghanies are so far from serving as a boundary to separate nations, that they do not even serve as a frontier to the States.

  • I am far from objecting, for I court inquiry.

  • So far from that, I had no doubt of her being prepared to have a great reliance on him and to like him very much.

  • It's far from a pleasant thing to be plotting about a dead man in the room where he died, especially when you happen to live in it.

  • The Conseiller d'Etat is so far from being a member of the Conseil d'Etat that he cannot possibly become a member till he receives a higher tchin.

  • The objection was overruled, and Moscow is now fairly well lit, but the provincial towns are still far from being on the same level.

  • Even now the process of Russification is far from complete, and the Russian elements in the population are far from being pure in the nationalist sense.

  • Though no such barrier existed among the pagan Finnish tribes, the work of Russification among them is still, as I have already indicated, far from complete.

  • I set the paddle so as to turn the canoe as far from it as possible, and held on grimly.

  • They strongly objected to his making the necessary alterations in the furnaces, and he seemed to be as far from a satisfactory experiment as ever.

  • A writer in the Monde says:--"The invention of postage-stamps is far from being so modern as is generally supposed.

  • Although he did not consider the mystery insoluble, far from it, he realized that time and research would be required to arrive at a solution, and that the affair was quite beyond his province.

  • To understand a little what these are, and how a man's weight, so far from being an encumbrance, is the very ground of his agility, was the chief lesson of my submarine experience.

  • My scheme was at least original; and I am far from regretting an action which has procured me the services of Major O'Rooke and Lieutenant Brackenbury Rich.

  • The din at the door, so far from abating, continued to increase in volume, and at each blow the unhappy secretary was shaken to the heart.

  • Noel, so far from betraying me, has delivered you into my hands for judgment.

  • But these advances, so far from encouraging Mr. Scuddamore, plunged him into the depths of depression and bashfulness.

  • She resolved to treat him with distant politeness, to decline his services with gratitude for the tender of them, and to make him feel, without offence, that his future visits would be far from acceptable.

  • Hushed are the winds; While soft the Vessel sailing With gentle motion plows the unruffled Main, I feel my bosom's boasted courage failing, And curse the waves which bear me far from Spain.

  • No, Daughter, far from it: I will purify you with wholesome chastisement, and furnish you with full leisure for contrition and remorse.

  • We ain't far from 'em now, an' if they get us they'll get us about here.

  • He was, consequently, far from fagged as he leaped forward to the lifted reins and tore along the dusty river trail back in the direction of Orobo.

  • Such a statement as this is far from just to the conceptions of such men as Butler, Paley, and Chalmers, no matter how fully the thinking world has now outlived them.

  • Wildly, far from coherently, the poor fellow spoke, yet something of the awful truth was to be gleaned even from those broken, disjointed sentences.

  • Swiftly, gracefully, these movements were made, and where they would have appeared fulsome or degraded in some, with this warrior the effect was far from disagreeable to see or to experience.

  • No, no, I assure you, my friend; far from it.

  • So far from being at a discount as to company, we are in fact what would be popularly called rather a nobby place.

  • Maria Jane herself is far from strong, and is subject to headaches, and nervous indigestion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "far from" 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:
    but was; far and; far back; far better; far less; far more; far off; far south; far west; fared forth; farinaceous food; farm crops; farm near; farm work; faro bank; farther south; farthest south; left tackle; less frequently; literary pursuits; natural heat; natural selection; people should; said naught; several passages; tenant right