adverb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
admire sb from afar
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Many girls fell in love with him but could only admire him from afar.
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Mary was still a good looking woman and Sid had admired her from afar for a long time.
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The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But not today, I can see that from afar .
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By Wednesday night, we could hear the sounds of cannons from afar .
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From afar , he saw the Mount of the Beatitudes.
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From afar , or even up close, the bridge is nothing more than a thin, unsteady shimmer of bamboo.
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One of the advantages of the belt is that the animals are easily visible from afar in the gloom in rough country.
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She'd distrusted him from afar , for some time, even before leaving London, before ever setting eyes on him.
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This burning, lighting up the sky, would be seen from afar .
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Yet the Master's mind reached out afar .