distant place

collocation in English

meaningsofdistantandplace

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distant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.tənt/us
/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofdistantandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistant place

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The goal is to immerse the user in the illusion to be present at adistantplace(real or virtual) and not just to interact with a computer.
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But there at least there are likely reasons: relics, for example, or pilgrimages, or perhaps a miraculous cure effected while a parishioner was in adistantplace.
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One is that an offer of work in somedistantplacewill be made which will not, in fact, be genuine.
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It would still be considered to be impersonal because it would be run by "them"in adistantplacerather than by"us" in the local community.
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I suggested a return rail ticket to somedistantplacethat could be used at a non-peak time.
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One way of doing that is to put them at somedistantplaceoffshore.
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It is important not to have to take them away to adistantplacethat has special machinery.
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It is not a fardistantplaceof little relevance which occasionally comes to our attention.
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It does not allow energy transportation at superluminal (faster than light) speed, nor does it increase total energy itself contained in adistantplace.
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In fact, he is a dragon from adistantplace.
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A broker came from adistantplaceto attend the auction, but all the furniture was withdrawn.
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Throughout the book he has seizures where he sees a young boy living in adistantplace.
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The power station had to be built in adistantplace, almost 300m away from the theatre, to ensure noise minimization.
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Jumping through the holes will transport him/her to anywhere randomly, to another hole beast ordistantplace.
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He has however, an alibi, as at the time of the occurrence he had been summoned to adistantplacewhere his father was ill.
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During earlier famines, rural households had relied heavily on remittances of male migrants working in distant places.
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Commercial users who make or accept many long distance calls to or from a particulardistantplacemay make them as local calls by use of a foreign exchange service.
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I wonder about the lake and about other lakes close by and far away in distant places.
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It is easy to foresee groups of 500 being transported to holiday centres while the smaller aircraft with 150-200 passengers will be travelling to new and more distant places.
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And in fact, the practice of sending commissioners to distant places and observing the collections either in museum laboratories or in a private study was accepted by metropolitan researchers.
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