Example sentences for: far-flung

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

  • Buchanan can't reconcile his lifelong anti-communism with the anti-interventionist philosophy that supposedly unites his book, so when it comes to the Cold War he carves out an absurd exception: The extreme evil of communism, he says, warranted military action in places as far-flung as Vietnam or as minuscule as Nicaragua.

  • Down towards the river, the Jardim Botânico, with plants collected from across Portugal’s far-flung empire, is Portugal’s largest.

  • Its crimes were on a scale approaching acts of war, but they were committed by a loose, far-flung, nebulous conspiracy with no territories or citizens or assets that could be readily threatened, overwhelmed, or destroyed.

  • But metaphysical implications seem to have interested him less than enforcing a moral example to unite his far-flung subjects in peace and fellowship, under him.

  • With such far-flung territories, dissolution was inevitable, and began immediately.


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