Examples of using "Distantes" in a sentence and their english translations:
We heard shots in the distance.
They are very far away.
The pilgrims brought gifts from distant lands.
Ants and giraffes are distant cousins.
Why so many distant wars, I wonder.
Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
After being away for a long time, Osyp changed markedly.
During the blackness of the new moon, distant galaxies light up the night sky.
But when the comparison is made with other, more distant, countries, like those in Asia
The knight is capable of attacking two pieces away from each other at the same time.
As the moon rises above the sea, we share the same time though we are far apart.
"I greet you, dear colleagues, brothers and sisters of the great global human family, who have come together from lands near and far, from the most diverse nations in the world, to shake each other's hands in brotherhood, in the name of a great idea which unites us all...."
Tatoeba is not a language school, nor a forum for academic discussions, nor, much less, a vehicle for propaganda of any kind. It's far above all that. Its true significance will only be perceived, I believe, in a few years or a few decades, when its beneficial influence will have radiated to the most distant corners of the planet.
Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
When now the Gods have made proud Ilion fall, / and Asia's power and Priam's race renowned / o'erwhelmed in ruin undeserved, and all / Neptunian Troy lies smouldering on the ground, / in desert lands, to diverse exile bound, / celestial portents bid us forth to fare; / where Ida's heights above Antandros frowned, / a fleet we build, and gather crews, unware / which way the Fates will lead, what home is ours and where.