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Example sentences for "far off"

  • We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

  • It shall not be far off,' though the stout-hearted maybe 'far from' it.

  • Your old sweetheart an't far off, and she's a blabber.

  • She had toiled out of her way, tired and troubled, to look up at it, and wonder about the grave, brown gentleman from so far off, who had spoken to her as a friend and protector.

  • At first all seemed dark, but at length he noticed a tiny spark far, far off, and, plucking up his spirits, he at once went in search of it.

  • At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off.

  • He crouched behind a bush for some time, till he felt that midnight could not be far off, when suddenly there arose in the middle of the moor a brilliant glow, as if a star was shining over one of the hillocks.

  • When you find a fashion low down, look back for the time (it will never be far off) when it was the fashion high up.

  • Tis she--far off, thro' moonlight dim He knew his own betrothed bride, She who would rather die with him Than live to gain the world beside!

  • Keep those eyes still purely mine, Tho' far off I be: When on others most they shine, Then think they're turned on me.

  • Have we to search for that, as if it were something hidden, far off, lost, and only to be recovered by our effort?

  • Far off, and lost to sight, are all the enemies.

  • Before me I saw a vast lake, not unlovely, where once the Nile flowed swiftly, far off a grey smudge--the very damnable dam.

  • Far off a pool of the Nile, that from here looked like a little palm-fringed lake, turned ruby-red.

  • As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds.

  • Far off on either flank rolled the pleasant country, its beauty heightened by the loom of blue mountains.

  • Far off, skirmishers, not satisfied with the slaughter of the day, were seeing what harm they could do in the dark.

  • And the end of the war, sir, seems as far off as ever.

  • Charge the prime conductor of an electrical machine, and a gold-leaf electrometer, far off from it, will at once be disturbed.

  • There she sits, at the very opposite corner, just as far off as accident could put her from this handsome fellow, by whose side she ought, of course, to be sitting.

  • Far off, along the great white road, they saw two horsemen galloping to meet them from the city, one dressed in brilliant saffron yellow, the other in the palest blue, both crowned with large and snowy turbans.

  • She heard more clearly the barking of the Kabyle dogs, and knew that tents were not far off.

  • The baptismal day was put as far off as possible, from the conviction that the sins committed after the sacrament were much more serious than those which went before.

  • Far off the Æolian isles were gloomed in the impending shadows, the smoky crater of Stromboli was no more than a black point circled by the double blue of waves and sky.

  • A pleasant green valley lay to the north, and to the south, far off, was the wall of rosy hills that hid the captured town.

  • I was as far off as you can imagine from that event of the early morning, when I stood waiting, half frozen, to be shot by Lancy's men.

  • On a blithe summer day we sighted, far off, the Island of Orleans and the tall masts of two patrol ships of war, which in due time we passed, saluting, and ran abreast of the island in the North Channel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "far off" 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:
    creative imagination; dull sermon; far back; far off; far the greater part; fare thee; farinaceous food; farm crops; farm house; farm labor; farm lands; farm life; farm near; farm products; farm work; farmyard manure; farther north; farther west; government ought; headed serpent; her mind; large picture; oesophageal ganglion; one was; small squares; white chalk