far afield

1. 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]

Example Sentences

It is, in some ways, the most pernicious because it strays far afield from direct claims of military and political heroism to celebrate a scientist, a profession built around facts.

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From the Greek colony in present-day Marseille, France, down to the Great Cataract in what is now Sudan, and as far afield as Co Loa in present-day Vietnam, Mr. Rees explores more than a dozen places where the great civilizations of the past butted up against a variety of lesser-known cultures.

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More than 500 people attended the final night at the city's Sub Club, with some travelling from as far afield as Belgium, Canada and the United States.

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The couple still cling on to the hope of finding Shadow and still go regularly to potential sightings of him - from as far afield as Barnsley and Wales.

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"Its just gone crazy," he added, saying he had since received messages of support from as far afield as South Africa, the US and Cayman Islands.

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Related Words

• abroad 
• absent 
• aside 
• distant 
• elsewhere 
• off 
• over