Distant example sentences

Many came from far and near to these towns to buy local articles and sell products of distant places like horses, salt, camphor, saffron, betel nut and spices like pepper.It tends to remain distant from our lives and restricted to discussions during training programmes.The plan also focuses on distant education, convergence of formal, non-formal, distant and IT education institutions.It seems that, many years before, a young man had left the valley and settled at a distant seaport.A faint light appeared in the east and the morning call for prayer came from a distant mosque.Trade was the main channel connecting distant countries.Reduce, reuse and recycle should be our mantra ! Pollution is no longer a distant phenomenon.Physical geographical gap or political boundaries no longer remain barriers for a business enterprise to serve a customer in a distant geographical market.Several more came from Bombay, Poona and other distant parts of the land.He had torn the lining of the box to shreds; when I removed the last of it so that there were no cutting edges left, it was just ten minutes until the time of the flight, and the airport was five miles distant.Pictures of distant lands and people, who lived there, always fascinated her.Set amidst the green fields of Dhaka, his home is not even a distant memory.The classical definition of hormone as a chemical produced by endocrine glands and released into the blood and transported to a distantly located target organ has current scientific definition as follows: Hormones are non-nutrient chemicals which act as intercellular messengers and are produced in trace amounts.These large MNCs have tremendous power to determine price, quality, delivery, and labour conditions for these distant producers.Some seeds are dispersed by animals, especially spiny seeds with hooks which get attached to the bodies of animals and are carried to distant places.