Collocations for "distant"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "distant" in context.
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distant
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- far off in a distant land
- travel to distant [places, countries]
- heard distant thunder
- a distant [star, galaxy]
- is the most distant [planet from the sun]
- make out distant objects
- you [feel, seem] so distant (lately)
- lately you (just) feel so distant
- found him to be (very, strangely, unusually) distant
- have been growing so distant
- the couple have [grown, become] distant
- in the (not too) distant [future, past]
- is just a distant memory
- [came in, finished] a distant second
- a distant [relative, cousin]
'distant' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):