Preposition: about

• mile: It lies S.S.W. from Keswick, distant about four miles.

Preposition: from

• parish: This person may be geographically distant from the parish, but their heart will be there.

Modifying Another Word

• geographically: Typically, leased lines are used by businesses to connect geographically distant offices, or simply to provide very high-speed dedicated Internet access.

• impossibly: He could have added an impossibly distant future, in so far as Gustav Stresemann prioritized relations with the West.

• too: In the not too distant future the scheme will also have lots more to offer.

• far: The Story: In a far distant future, a would-be master race seeks to dominate the galaxy.

• physically: Remote Office Telework A location physically distant from the main office, where one or more workers work.

• rather: Also the relationship between the two cats was still a rather distant one.

Modifies a noun

• cousin: Maybe we can link you to unknown or distant cousins.

• galaxy: Distant galaxies are moving away from each other, they're accelerating.

• metastasis: With the proof of local infiltration of a neighboring organ or in the presence of distant metastasis, palliative therapy can be started.

• relative: I recently received a letter from a distant relative in Kansas.

• horizon: On the distant horizon the erupting volcano was barely visible to us.

• past: HK's question is, how does the distant past reach down to our own lives today?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: A number of people noted that the ' diocese ' seems distant.

• remain: The prospects for an EU nuclear ' deterrent ' force remain far distant if not inconceivable.

• appear: With all his superhuman qualities and achievements, Sri Krishna never appeared distant to any of his fellow human beings.

• feel: He sat down on the bed, and I sat next to him, feeling distant from my own body.

• grow: Left by her own mother as a child, Mia has grown more distant from her father as she approaches adulthood.

• become: The old woman sitting before them became suddenly distant.