How to use "distant" in a sentence

Finally, as evening fell, he sat on the ground, exhausted, and gazed across the fields at the distant mountains, wishing that he was back in prison

'The French Revolution!' he heard a distant voice reply - the voice of his friend, Enjolras.

He sat for a long time listening to the sound of distant gunfire in the city, wondering how to get his revenge, when suddenly he heard footsteps

Looking back, he saw the distant light of a torch

'Go in,' said Javert, with a strange, distant look in his eyes

Jean Valjean continued his evening visits, but the relationship between himself and Cosette became cooler and more distant

distant, almost.

Gran was always talking about the days when she and Sala's grandfather used to travel to distant lands, climb mountains, and go swimming in the ocean

Instead, she spent hours sitting on her bench in the Real Space, looking out over the city with a distant expression

The radio ceased scanning, stopping on an open frequency that hissed and popped with distant static

"Michael-" she began, intending to tell him that she was going to stage another show within the next year, that she didn't want to be represented by only one production at a time, and that she even had distant designs on New York and Broadway, where the return of Busby Berkeley - style musicals might be greeted with cheers.

Elliot stared at her with consternation and with pity, his dark eyes reflecting a distant light

With a distant click, the light that he had just turned off now turned itself on.

His time was enormously valuable to the country; his work was sensitive and often-required urgent decisions based upon first-hand examination of information to be found only in distant places

The end of all life, which is a distant possibility for us, is an immediate problem for the Martians.

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

From the distant railway station came the sound of trains

At that moment a bright green light lit up the road around me and showed the distant woods to the north

From beyond the low hills across the water came the dull sound of the distant guns and a far-away strange crying

He went to bed a little after midnight and was woken in the early hours of Monday morning by the sound of knocking on doors, feet running in the street, distant drumming and the ringing of bells

We heard the distant sound of a gun, then another nearer, and then another

But that is a distant dream

He wrote to me, asking me to use my contacts to find him a job in a distant country