Sentence examples of "lointaine" in French

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Elle lui est apparentée de manière lointaine. She is distantly related to him.
J'ai vu une lumière lointaine. I saw a light far away.
Nous avons vu luire la lueur lointaine d'un phare. We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.
Aujourd'hui, nous pouvons facilement aller dans des pays lointains par avion. Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.
Un gratte-ciel est-il un objet de grande taille lointain ou un objet de petite taille vu de près ? Is a skyscraper a big thing far away or a small thing close up?
Les activistes ont été aperçu dans un coin lointain de la jungle brésilienne. The activists were last seen in a remote, forested corner of Brazil.
L'équipage de Christophe Colomb s'est souvent plaint qu'il saturait la connexion wifi du navire pour s'adonner à des jeux en ligne, mais il réfuta ces accusations avec indignation, en faisant valoir qu'il recherchait des îles lointaines qu'ils devaient encore découvrir à l'époque. His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
La voie lactée est une vaste ceinture d'étoiles lointaines, chacune semblable à notre soleil. The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like our one.
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