Distant in sentence

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The Maldives are still distant, away.

Their islands are distant from where I live.

Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans?

If you look very hard here you can see the signal from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, the most distant human object in the universe, 106 times as far away from us as the sun is.

So why care about the history of our planet when the distant past seems so inconsequential to everyday life?

Or the distant peel of thunder?

They realized that there must be a distant, giant planet just beyond the orbit of Uranus that was tugging along at that orbit, sometimes pulling it along a bit too fast, sometimes holding it back.

Must have been frustrating back in 1840 to see these gravitational effects of this distant, giant planet but not yet know how to actually find it.

So in 2003, I discovered what was at the time the most distant known object in the entire solar system.

Sure, it could have been some distant, giant planet in the outer solar system, but by this time, that idea was so ridiculous and had been so thoroughly discredited that I didn't take it very seriously.

But what's even more interesting is that they found that all these objects are not only on these distant, elongated orbits, they also share a common value of this obscure orbital parameter that in celestial mechanics we call argument of perihelion.

When they realized it was clustered in argument of perihelion, they immediately jumped up and down, saying it must be caused by a distant, giant planet out there, which is really exciting, except it makes no sense at all.

Konstantin and I spent a year trying to come up with any explanation other than a distant, giant planet in the outer solar system.

We could come up with no other explanation other than that there is a distant, massive planet on an elongated orbit, inclined to the rest of the solar system, that is forcing these patterns for these objects in the outer solar system.

We see the gravitational effects of a distant, giant planet, and we are trying to work out the calculations to tell us where to look, to point our telescopes, to find this planet.

And although the circumstances of our lives may seem very distant, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America, and you, just getting through school, I want you to know that we have very much in common.

Not just in modern humans, but in one of our distant unrelated ancestors, the Neanderthals.

The distant witnesses, the watching audience, they matter.

So we started thinking, what if you could tap into that power, the power of distant witnesses?

These are Indian nurses learning how to use PDAs to access databases that have information that they don't have access to at home in a distant manner.

Perhaps you felt some strange, distant worry about that email you sent this morning or excitement about something you've got planned for this evening.

And I want to say that I think we're on the path of understanding metabolic flexibility in a fundamental way, and that in the not too distant future, an EMT might give an injection of hydrogen sulfide, or some related compound, to a person suffering severe injuries, and that person might de-animate a bit, they might become a little more immortal.

A zoning tool connects distant structures, a building and a roadway.

So collaborative work, whether it's immediately co-located or distant and distinct, is always important.

It's one of the most incredible things about the physics and the understanding of nature that you get on Earth, is you can transport it, not only to the planets, but to the most distant stars and galaxies.

But that is not the most distant or most famous picture of our planet.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.

This is an amazing thing: That in this frequency range where whales communicate, the main source globally, on our planet, for the noise comes from human ships, thousands of human ships, distant, far away, just all aggregating.

As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we're essentially backing up into the past.

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