Example sentences for: faraway

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

  • The score by Mychael Danna features faraway muezzin wails--calls that could be emanating from the girl in the flickering movie who's about to be slain.

  • Here, the Oriental spices, and silks and exotic cargoes from faraway ports were unloaded from the republic’s ancient galleons.

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."

  • Another corollary is that mere humanitarian considerations should play little or no role in decisions about when to intervene in faraway places.

  • They have obliged the United States--which, after winning the Cold War, would have happily left the rest of the world to its own devices--to continue with "the tiresome business of threatening and using force, deploying troops in faraway places, and cobbling together coalitions."


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