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How to use distantly in a sentence

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Kristen could hear their conversation distantly but couldn't make out what they were saying.
I hear Roberts' voice call out distantly, even though he's right in front of me.
Ikeda was too stunned to move, and could hear Rimiya screeching distantly down the hallway.
Tahixha thought she heard bells ringing distantly, magical, ethereal chimes whispering of an uncertain future.
It is distantly related to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and closely related to Lao and Thai.
Alex smiled to herself as Yuka and Mark continued to bicker about his hitting ability, and distantly, she heard a knock at the door.
Beth distantly heard a snide comment from the first customer in line, and breathed a sigh of relief when the cashier finally looked away.
A mechanical hum vibrates distantly, though I can only really hear it through my feet.
She could distantly hear screams down the hallway, and stopped dead in her tracks when she realized that it was coming from Ryan's room.
Perhaps distantly connected, however, is the issue currently circulating of whether academics should journal at all.
However, this problem should be studied in more detail considering both distantly related and closely related species.
Then all the genes in a new network should be closely related to each other, and only distantly to the old network.
Apparently the evolutionary pattern of distantly related sequences should be described differently from that of closely related sequences.
We observed a slight correlation in the month of birth for closely spaced siblings, but not among more distantly spaced offspring.
Koushkani is a master of the Tar, a Persian instrument reminiscent of the Greek bouzouki or, more distantly, the mandolin.
At Oxford, she fell somewhat distantly in love with the poet and gifted linguist Frank Thompson.
Third, the more distantly related two individuals are, the more different their micro-satellites will be.
Now, however, she just smiled at him distantly, put the tea on the table and walked away.
Aided by Adam Cork's superb sound track, he underscores the action with savage bird-cries and distantly reverberative music.
Saire smiled distantly as he put an arm about her shoulder and ushered her back inside.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The corona is bordered by the so-called Doric cyma, or beak-moulding, distantly resembling the scotia of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
She's Gene's aunt, and my fourth cousin, and I think she's distantly related to Jeff.
With his neighbors Signor Keralio was distantly polite, but never intimate.
Very distantly, it seemed to him, he could make out a little glow of red and feel a breath of warmness.
She appealed to Miss Taylor's ruddier and daintier vision but dimly and distantly as some memory of the past.
The gentleman bowed, distantly enough, and said he was obliged to him.
In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him.
Such distantly orbiting planets challenge theories describing planet formation, especially around sunlike stars.
I saluted him distantly, and he returned my greeting with the like pride.
The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
I admire this mercenary young person distantly related to myself, more in this dress than if she had come to me in China silks, Cashmere shawls, and Golconda diamonds.
He only learned that the more he himself knew, in his little limited human way, the better he could distantly imagine what Omniscience might know.
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