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• With her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, she was easy to spot from afar.From the entry shoulder-length
• I heard a cry from afar.From the entry cry
• At puberty he began to worship an occasional schoolgirl from afar, like most middle-class boys.2022, James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, Second Edition, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry counterdogmatic
• I took photographs from afar, unbeknownst to them, that I would later use for my painting.2010 September, Tatijana Jacenkiw, “My Babusias: Companions on a personal journey”, in Our Life, volume LXVII, number 9, UNWLA, Inc., page…. From the entry babusia
• CALL ME A NIPPONOPHILE—a secret admirer of Japan, a worshiper from afar.2003, William Illsey Atkinson, Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small, Amacom, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry Nipponophile
• I know you all were watching this immaculacy from afar, but now it's your time to actually taste this immaculacy.2020 September 15, Justmaiko, Trying VIRAL TikTok Life Hacks! **They ACTUALLY Work!!**. From the entry immaculacy
• To a man from afar, Phiri, from Malawi.”2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 232. From the entry save
• It was love from afar and born of admiration.1971, Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal. From the entry lesbianoid
• The earth-spirit of Tema, who loved carousals, heard from afar the songs and laughter of the people on Nassau.1929 July, Robert Dean Frisbie, “Tata and Toto”, in The Book of Puka-Puka, New York, N.Y.; London: The Century Co., →OCLC, section II…. From the entry carousal
• Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 101. From the entry simoom
• Scientists have used bioacoustics—a subfield of ecology that relies on sound to make environmental analyses—for studying bats from afar, dolphin communication patters and more.2024, Meghie Rodrigues, “The song of a missing bird may help scientists find it”, in Science News, page 4. From the entry bioacoustics
• Make sure the bus doesn’t take you to the “official” Cape Fukui stop (富貴角站), which offers views of the cape from afar.2008 May 29, David Chen, “Temple of the dog”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2008, Features, page 13. From the entry Fuchi
• And Kinsella, acknowledging how much she gets out of Mehan's doting over her in person and from afar, concedes she's in a "vacationship".2007, Tom Levinson, "Lives in limbo", Chicago Tribune. From the entry vacationship
• Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs.2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times. From the entry keep tabs on
• Then the warhero, Wiglaf, ordered many of the fightingmen, faithful comrades, who were householders, that they heap up wood, fetched from afar, for the folk chieftain, for their hero-king.2010, Ruth P.M. Legmann, Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, page 104. From the entry warhero
• The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar.2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84. From the entry coup de foudre
• If she keeps the dog up, the garden is invaded night and day by an army of peregrinating feline marauders that scent the booty from afar.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry marauder
• Oh, the world's remote from my existence, unless all that appearency outside me, as though it always meant to be inside me, gleams from afar into me gladsomely.1914, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems, 1906 to 1926, published 1976, page 182. From the entry appearency
• With Sam the only menace, I had been prepared to play a purely waiting game, watching proceedings from afar, ready to give my help if necessary.1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Little Nugget. From the entry waiting game
• The light is still that bright-green shining through new leaves, and from afar we hear pheasants calling: a smart chock, chock call not quite sufficiently suggestive of their epic dumbness.2011 May 8, Emma Townshend, “Wakehurst Place: Kew's country cousin is as accessible as tricky terrains come”, in The Independent, London…. From the entry chock

Meaning of afar

1. adverb At, to, or from a great distance; far away; distantly.

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How do you use afar in a sentence?

Afar is used as an adverb. For example: “He was seen from afar.”

What is a short sentence with afar?

“He loved her from afar.”

What does afar mean?

Afar means at, to, or from a great distance; far away; distantly.