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.

  • They performed poorly in far-flung adventures (the Russo-Japanese War, for example) but savaged invaders when the Motherland was under attack.

  • The Persian Empire’s far-flung lands included a number of Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Turkey.

  • Host Chris Jussel leads a team of gallery-owners and academic experts to a different antique show in a different far-flung city each week.

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


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