How to use in-sentence of “distantly”:
+ The females are usually closely related, while the male is distantly related.
+ Some Han people believe they share common ancestors, distantly related to the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor, who existed thousands of years ago.
+ They are less closely related to the remaining Lorisoidealorisoids, and more distantly to the lemurs of Madagascar.
+ The sunbirds have similarities with two distantly related groups: the hummingbirds of the Americas and the honeyeaters of Australia.
+ Her mother is distantly related to Jane Seymour.
+ Elephants are distantly related to sea cows, which are large aquatic mammals.
+ The region of Brittany is named after them and many speak “Breton languageBrezhoneg”, a Cornish and a bit more distantly to Welsh.
Example sentences of “distantly”:
+ She was distantly related to her husband.
+ They were distantly related to the Iroquois.
+ This is not to be confused with pidgins or creoles because those are languages that are created for people who speak unrelated, or distantly related, languages.
+ The lower groups are more closely related, but the higher classes are more distantly related.
+ Stony corals are only distantly related to fire corals and soft corals.
+ In the U.S., the term “polecat” is often applied to skunks, which are only distantly related to the European polecat.
+ Today, most palaeobotanists regard them as being only distantly related to ferns and that these names are misleading, but the names have nevertheless stuck.
+ Sir Winston Churchill is also distantly related to William.
+ She was distantly related to her husband.
+ They were distantly related to the Iroquois.
+ This is not to be confused with pidgins or creoles because those are languages that are created for people who speak unrelated, or distantly related, languages.
+ This bird is an Old World vulture, and is only distantly related to the New World vultures, which are in a separate family, Cathartidae, of the same order.
+ The closest relatives of elephants seem to be manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes, which are all only distantly related to other pachyderms.
+ The Hlai language is distantly related to languages such as Thai, Lao, and Cuengh.
+ The Crocodilia are much more distantly related.
+ The term “protist” includes microorganisms from several distantly related phyla.
+ The related “Torosaurus”, and the more distantly related diminutive “Leptoceratops”, were also present, though their remains are rarely found.