Example sentences for: afield

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

  • Two others, Wadi al Hage and Mubarak Douri, who had become acquainted in Tucson, Arizona, in the late 1980s, went as far afield as China, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Belarus.

  • Solutions came from as far afield as Brazil.

  • Farther afield, southeast along Calle J. M. Márquez, you’ll find Ermita de Santa Ana, a bricked-up church overlooking the town on a hill where boys fly homemade kites.

  • How much leeway a comic strip can sustain, how far afield it can stretch and stray is always a delicate balance guided by the intuition of the cartoonist.

  • The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power—developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles—helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.


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