far-off造句
31. With a far-off, gingery air he brought forward this first offering upon the altar of natural affection, for offering it was, after all.
32. Their explanation: a faint, far-off companion star to the Sun was sending down a rain of comets when it reached just the right point in its orbit.
33. By doing this, I break down something that seems far-off (a beautiful big house to retire in and for my children and grandchildren to enjoy) into smaller pieces that I can do right now.
34. Having said that, it's actually quite hard to take down your enemy when they appear to be little more than a splodge on a far-off hill.
35. DEMETRIUS These things seem small and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.
36. Communism is merely some meaningless utopian notion, in some far-off never-never land.
37. First the Greeks, then the Romans began to speak of the Seres (people of silk), a term to designate the inhabitants of the far-off kingdom, China.
38. Many Americans may know Kazakhstan from the 2006 movie Borat. The film erroneously painted the country as a far-off land that produces foul-mouthed goofballs like the star of the movie.
39. Then the howl of a far-off dog rose on the night air, and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter distance.
40. I'll confess, one of my secret remedies for homesickness when I'm traveling in some far-off foreign land is to go back to my hotel and listen to National Public Radio on the Internet.
41. This iteration of Orion is intended for trips to Mars or far-off asteroids.
42. Harking back to the far-off days when he was a grad student, physicist Stephen Hawking recalls how physicists bristled at the idea of a big bang, with its echoes of the biblical Genesis story.
43. By comparing photos taken at different times, scientists can subtract out objects that appear stationary, like far-off galaxies, and focus on things that appear to be moving in orbits, like asteroids.
44. Second, the benefits of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions can seem abstract and far-off.
45. At that time none of us knew, or needed to care, what was happening in such far-off places as China, or Vietnam, or the Congo.
46. Rick looked through the blister, down at Tirol and the expanding ball of gas that had been the Pursuer, and the far-off spacecraft that had been parts of the Sentinels' battlewagon .
47. To avoid high rents in his hometown Nairobi, he located his plant in a far-off village.
48. It seems important to make some gesture on every anniversary of the death; a pilgrimage to the sea and a communing with a daughter who lies cradled by another, far-off ocean.
49. As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains.
50. Astronomers then measure this glow and use it to correct telescope settings to overcome the blurring effect of the atmosphere on far-off images.
51. While the tenant was dreaming of a far-off world of peace and plenty, the landlord descended on him in the night, kidnaped him and threw him in his dungeon.
52. Few things seemed to Newland Archer more awful than an offence against "Taste, " that far-off divinity of whom "Form" was the mere visible representative and vicegerent.
53. I was the only one of my friends—all of us academic transplants, all soldiers of art stationed on a far-off base (or so we imagined it)—who hadn't had something terrible happen to her yet.
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