REMOTENESS in a Sentence

Learn REMOTENESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

128 example sentences for REMOTENESS, such as:

1. The ladies were ladies, remote from him.
2. The bomb was detonated by remote control.
3. The possibility of rescue now seemed remote indeed.
4. Adulthood and responsibility seemed impossibly remote.
5. That remote barren land has blossomed into rich granaries.

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 Meanings and Examples of REMOTENESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
remoteness
 n.  a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
 n.  the property of being remote
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  To such an unwonted remoteness, however, had his spirit now withdrawn into itself that he stirred not in his chair when old Roger Chillingworth, without any extraordinary precaution, came into the room.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
3  The sky had grown blue and bright; and with the same softness, but with the same remoteness, it met his questioning gaze.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
4  She saw in them the old remoteness that had always baffled her--and a look of self-hatred.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She leaned toward him ardently but he held her away from him, looking at her with eyes from which all remoteness had fled, eyes tormented with struggle and despair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  There was no barrier between his eyes and hers now, no baffling remoteness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
7  A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  It made her want to cling fast to him, to hold him, for there was a warm, half-sleepy remoteness in his beauty that made her want to cry out and clutch him, to have him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  None of its features could be seen now, but the whole made itself felt as a vague stretch of remoteness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
10  On one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp, sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
11  Cedric is not her father," replied the Prior, "and is but of remote relation: she is descended from higher blood than even he pretends to, and is but distantly connected with him by birth.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  Albert Malvoisin was overwhelmed with confusion; for the unfortunate Rebecca had been confined in a remote and secret part of the building, and every precaution used to prevent her residence there from being known.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  And it was curious how much closer the servants' quarters seemed to have come; right up to the doors of Clifford's study, when before they were so remote.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  It was raining, but not so cold, and the wood felt so silent and remote, inaccessible in the dusk of rain.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  The ladies were ladies, remote from him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.
2  They rammed an explosive charge home and detonated it by remote control.
3  They take little interest in a conflict far from their homes and remote from their everyday problems.
4  The bomb was detonated by remote control.
5  In remote regions, the air is pure and the crops are free of poisonous insecticides.
6  I could hardly imagine living in such a remote and desolate spot.
7  The possibility of rescue now seemed remote indeed.
8  It is possible to plug into remote databases to pick up information.
9  That remote barren land has blossomed into rich granaries.
10  Tomorrow, there's a remote possibility of snow on high ground.
11  I use a sunscreen whenever there is even a remote possibility that I will be in the sun.
12  Your comments are rather remote from the subject we are discussing.
13  Adulthood and responsibility seemed impossibly remote.
14  One theory is that the bomb was detonated by remote control.
15  The transit was damaged by flood; we were blocked at a remote mountain village.