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:

  • In August, 1967, at the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) offices on the University of Wisconsin campus, Frederic G. Cassidy assembled the third group of dialect fieldworkers he would send out in Word Wagons (Dodge vans converted to campers) to collect regional words from far-flung reaches of the United States.

  • 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.

  • Biographies these days are likely to be heavy and clanking with scholarly apparatus--exhaustively researched, loaded with random information about far-flung progenitors, and long.

  • We also recommend the consolidation of authority over the now far-flung entities constituting the intelligence community.

  • From Chechnya to Kurdistan to Quebec, independence is achieved through television, luck, and location, location, location--no way for far-flung East Timor, maybe for European Kurdistan.


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