far afield


Wide-ranging, at a distance, as in I started out identifying wild mushrooms, but since then I've gone far afield in other branches of botany. [c. 1400]

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How to use far afield in a sentence

  • And this is pretty far afield, but keep an eye on Aleppo in Syria.

  • But he did know that they met now and then, that Mills seemed to have some curious knowledge of when Bland was far afield.

    The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • It is surprising how far afield it is possible to go at little drain on your strength and pocket-book on a June week-day.

    Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport Gibbons
  • These are not extreme and isolated instances; no one will need to walk far afield to witness similar contrasts.

    The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
  • A large number of parallel instances might easily be given; but they would lead us too far afield.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • But that plaid should now go so far afield as to decorate the noble garment of the Indies is ill news.

    Ceres' Runaway | Alice Meynell