far-flung• Participants come from nations as far-flung as Iceland and Japan.• He's gone off hiking in some far-flungcorner of Alaska.• One friend, a lawyer, swears by e-mail because it helps her keep in touch with far-flung friends.• On a far-flungfront we must wagewar.• So, sometimes running and sometimes walking, she made her way quickly across the far-flungheath.• We think we know it all now, and banish our far-flung ideas from this world into Space.• Our job is to organize the company's far-flung offices.• The company operates a number of far-flung offices.• It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flungreaches of the country.
far-flung corners/places/regions etc• Peter had bought the car from Cohn Crabbe, that inveterate discoverer of lost cars in far-flung places.• The system of counties was essential to Frankish government, and a count could wieldconsiderable power, particularly in far-flung regions.• Danceartists are starting to appear regularly in these apparently far-flung corners of Britain.