Example sentences for: afar

How can you use “afar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its center, Kenmore Square, pinpointed from afar by a massive neon CITGO sign, is a congested intersection of fast-food restaurants, frequented by local youth and university students from MIT and other colleges.

  • It was originally topped by a cap of pure gold, which reflected the bright sunlight and acted as a beacon for those who searched from afar for the temple.

  • Half the pleasure of this lovely town dramatically perched on a rocky precipice is a first glimpse of it from afar (not so very different today from Turner’s 1828 painting in London’s Tate Gallery).

  • It concluded, "Perhaps even Monica, watching him from afar, felt a last shudder of tenderness and regret for her ex-lover, so important and so alone."

  • (Note that the Harris and Klebold families, from afar, seem quite ordinary, lacking the social pathologies typically blamed for deranged teen-age psyches.)


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