adverb
definition
At a distance.
example
The horizon was distantly visible in the grey light of dawn.
definition
In a distant manner; with detachment.
example
"What do you want?" she said distantly.
Examples of distantly in a Sentence
Beating at the door registered distantly in his thoughts.
His father was an official, his mother an Ancillon, distantly related to the Prussian minister of that name.
After a brief residence with his mother, who was needlessly alarmed at the idea of her son falling a victim to some casual coquette, Swift towards the close of 1689 entered upon an engagement as secretary to Sir William Temple, whose wife (Dorothy Osborne) was distantly related to Mrs Swift.
Most observers consider that Actinotrocha is a highly modified Trochosphere, and this would give it some claim to be regarded as distantly related to the Entoproct Polyzoa and to other groups which have a Trochosphere larva.
She closed her eyes and retraced the route to the cottage in her mind, only distantly aware she was absorbing his energy.
Compare the nucleotide-binding sites of these two proteins that may be very distantly related.
Our study indicates that CLCrV and CLCuV are two distinct and distantly related subgroup III geminiviruses.
Spelt is distantly related to the wheat that we know and eat today, but it has more protein, fat, and fiber than common wheat.
Gland-A collection of cells whose function is to release certain chemicals (hormones) that are important to the functioning of other, sometimes distantly located, organs or body systems.
The population is composed mainly of Indians, distantly related to the tribes of the mainland, and mestizos.
The above analysis is rough, since even distantly placed sections, indeed the two parts themselves, are interrelated by delicate complex references on and back.
Distantly allied to the prairie-hare or white-tailed jack-rabbit, are several forms distinguished by having a more or less distinct black stripe on the upper surface of the tail.
The 16th and 17th centuries have four volumes apiece, much of which is very distantly connected with French history proper, especially in the two volumes entitled Renaissance and Reforme.
She had no near relatives, and more than a dozen ScOttish or Anglo-Scottish nobles, distantly related, to the royal line, put in a claim to the crown, or at least to a part of the royal heritage.
The Irish branch of the Temple family, from which Lord Palmerston descended, was very distantly related to the great English house of the same name, but these Irish Temples were not without distinction.
I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet, but it is on the one hand distantly and indirectly related to Flint's Pond, which is more elevated, by a chain of small ponds coming from that quarter, and on the other directly and manifestly to Concord River, which is lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, and by a little digging, which God forbid, it can be made to flow thither again.