How to Use afield in a Sentence

afield

adverb or adjective
  • British hip-hop is on a tear right now – both at home and further afield.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 July 2023
  • Sand the lid and rails, chalk it up, and then practice before going afield.
    M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The action on the House floor this week captured just how far afield the debate has strayed.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Mackie’s insights range far and wide and, at times, seem a little too far afield.
    Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
  • Instead, the center of a storm can track anywhere inside the cone with impacts far afield.
    The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Raven, her new album and first in six years, presents something further afield.
    Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Farther afield, a fresh crop of new buildings dotted the horizon.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There are a handful of breweries in the northwest corner of Houston, inside the 610 Loop, close to the Loop, and farther afield.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Simone ventures afield into the rise of New York disco, which 1.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Surl Lee has also begun to set his sights farther afield.
    Time, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In this rugged little plane, Zdarsky has ventured as far afield as the Caribbean and Nome, Alaska.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The ingredients used in the workshop were varied and sourced not just from Egypt, but much further afield.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • For those looking to go further afield with friends, Naia Resort and Spa in Belize is worth a look.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The longer stay gave me time to visit places that were farther afield, such as San Salvi, a church that is part of an 11th-century abbey complex.
    Nancy Nathan, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • But its biggest threat now seems to be coming from farther afield: New Jersey.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • By late 2020, Gaussorgues turned farther afield — to India.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • No wonder skiers are searching farther and farther afield to get their fix.
    Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The sky-high monolith that’s part of Gillette’s glow-up looked like a monument to a glorious past that feels further and further afield from the field.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The launch was experienced not just by those watching along the coast, but also those farther afield.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Marni is usually a mainstay of the MFW calendar, but for Fall 2023 the house headed further afield.
    Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But part of the problem could also originate much further afield.
    Sophie Tremblay, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • That’s been a real boon for people looking for places to camp that are further afield from their usual stomping grounds.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Further afield, the tweet caused violent rhetoric to course through anonymous pro-Trump sectors of the internet.
    Isaac Stanley-Becker and Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022
  • But Bout’s history in the arms trade extended much further afield.
    Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But Bout's history in the arms trade extended much further afield.
    Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • Some of the other destinations in the pandemic’s first year were farther afield.
    oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2022
  • June Wash, a bit farther afield (about an hour's drive from Borrego Springs) is also a predictable home to wildflowers.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Though Aceh had virtually no time to evacuate, people in places further afield might have been saved had the alarm been raised.
    WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And deprived of gas from its neighbor, Morocco has to go hunting much further afield.
    Ashifa Kassam, ajc, 28 Apr. 2022
  • A bit farther afield is one of my favorite boutiques in the city, Vintage Inspiration Paris.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023

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