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How to use remote in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Remote means at a distance; disconnected. Example: “A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.”

Examples of remote by meaning

adjectiveAt a distance; disconnected.

  • A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.

adjectiveDistant or otherwise inaccessible.

  • After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.

adjectiveSlight.

  • There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
  • They have a very remote chance of winning.
  • You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.

adjectiveEmotionally detached.

  • After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.

verbTo remove (from something or someone).

  • These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion

More sentences with remote

  • They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.From the entry bank
  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.From the entry bear
  • In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.From the entry skeleton
  • He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.From the entry wrest
  • The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.From the entry interface
  • With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.From the entry control
  • The panel shows both local and remote sites.From the entry local
  • The bomb was detonated by remote control.From the entry remote control
  • Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.From the entry ascend
  • Do we have any spare batts for the TV remote?From the entry batts
  • The couple lived the good life on a remote farm.From the entry good life
  • The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch.From the entry last mile
  • We can use this voice-activated remote control to change the channel or adjust the volume of the TV without touching the remote control.From the entry voice-activated
  • Long believed to be extinct, the purple-bellied speckled turtle was sighted for the first time in living memory in a remote pasture near Chicago.From the entry in living memory
  • User self-elevation occurs when mobile, remote, or power users need to run software that is usually run by only users with administrator-level permissions.From the entry self-elevation
  • That brings back memories of my visit to the remote Scottish island of Foula.2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68. From the entry Julian calendar
  • That was the only metric of horror on which this sight knew remote equal.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry metric
  • Those who work remote are most likely to polywork (81%) followed by those who work hybrid (79%).2023 March 12, Tracy Brower, “Working Multiple Jobs: 5 Considerations For The Promise And Peril Of Polywork”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry polywork
  • The reality of remote working has turned out to be different.2022 January 8, “The rise of performative work”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry performative
  • Anyone with the remotest knowledge of railway signalling knows that it always fails safe.2021 November 17, Christian Wolmar, “Misleading statements lead to ill-informed speculation”, in RAIL, number 944, page 44. From the entry remotest
  • Both are remote and sparsely inhabited, but there's some pretty scenery.2017 May, Piera Chen, Dinah Gardner, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Lonely Planet Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 10th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet…. From the entry southerly
  • All told, some 30 subjects generated over 1.5 million trials in the remote and off-time experiments.2015, Ulisse Di Corpo, Antonella Vannini, SYNTROPY: The Spirit of Love, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry off-time
  • This remote island was in the middle of the Banda Sea.2015 August 4, S. John Dickinson, The Banda Sea Pirates, Booktango, →ISBN. From the entry Banda Sea
  • These light-weight robots are remote controlled by operators that drive in cars alongside the racetracks.2015 August 28, Lamber Royakkers, Rinie van Est, “Automation from Love to War”, in Just Ordinary Robots: Automation from Love to War…. From the entry robot jockey
  • This is important stuff, as anyone with an online bank account or remote corporate network knows.2014, Bruce Schneier, “The Difficulty of Un-Authentication”, in Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security, Indianapolis, Ind.: John…. From the entry unauthenticate
  • So despite its remote location near the Mongolian border, Ordos prospered.2012, Steve Cortés, Against the Herd, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14. From the entry ordos
  • She was sold to a remote valley in the area of Aertai Mountain in Xinjiang province.2011, Wang Yongli, “Curly's Mother Was Rescued from the Slave Traders”, in The Hell and the World, Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry A'ertai
  • And not wholly remote from what we must call the Solo problem.2008, Michael Innes, Carson's Conspiracy, page 97. From the entry vaccimulgence
  • The choice between hesternal past and remote past is more subjective.2008, Mark L. O. Van de Velde, “Tense, Aspect, Mood and Negation”, in A Grammar of Eton (Mouton Grammar Library; 46), Berlin: Mouton de…. From the entry hesternal
  • And we may have to untape the DVD and video and TV and Sky remotes.2008, Peep Show (British TV series), "Burgling" (series 5 episode 1). From the entry untape
  • The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise.2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic. From the entry angelless
  • Sanderson was similar to dozens of other strange birds said to still inhabit remote corners of Africa.2006, E. Randall Floyd, The world's 100 greatest mysteries. From the entry olitiau
  • A number of different remoting styles are used in today's middleware systems.2004, Markus Völter, Michael Kircher, Uwe Zdun, Remoting patterns. From the entry remoting

Meaning of remote

  1. adjective At a distance; disconnected.
  2. adjective Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
  3. adjective Slight.

Full definition of remote

Questions about remote in a sentence

How do you use remote in a sentence?
Remote is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.”
What is a short sentence with remote?
“Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.”
What does remote mean?
Remote means at a distance; disconnected.

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