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distant to me vs distant for me

Both phrases are not commonly used in English. The preposition 'to' is typically used with 'distant' to indicate the distance between two objects or people. The preposition 'for' is not typically used in this context.

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distant to me

This phrase is not commonly used in English. The preposition 'to' is typically used with 'distant' to indicate the distance between two objects or people.

The correct phrase is 'distant from me' when referring to the distance between oneself and something else.

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He was so distant to me, it seemed right.
You're so open and honest with Song Yi Kyung... ...while you were so cold and distant to me.
Large doses may cause paralysis in muscles distant to the injection site.
The father figure my own dad was too weird and distant to be.
In the final evaluation stakeholders emphasised the fact that the Safer Internet Plus programme enabled sectors otherwise distant to each other, to work together, e.g. telecoms providers and NGOs.
So I shuffled around distant relatives for a while.
I brought a couple distant cousins.
One - a distant nephew named Zack Harrison.
That distant sound you hear is wedding bells.
There were two follow cars several blocks distant.
A sporocystian energy burst approximately ten light-years distant.
All stranded on a distant planet.
Everyone else is just... just comes a distant, distant second.
People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Examples of Polish presses (other than the beneficiary's) providing services to distant customers constitute further proof that it is possible to offer magazine printing services on distant markets without prohibitive distribution costs.
He heard a low and distant sound.
That could be the angle of perturbation of a distant galaxy.
The fattened aardvark is a distant memory.
Dear Billy, I must seem a distant memory...
Look, there's a note thoughtlessly nailed to that distant relative.

Alternatives:

distant from me
far from me

distant for me

This phrase is not commonly used in English. The preposition 'for' is not typically used in this context.

The correct phrase is 'distant from me' when referring to the distance between oneself and something else.

Show examples from the web [+]

Going to dinner with you is a distant memory for me but you have time to take her to lunch?
I'm emotionally distant for my family.
You've been distant for months as it is.
But we were distant for a long time when I was young, and that was really hard.
I feel like you left our marriage, and you've been so distant for so long.
Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.
Let him stay however distant for however long... with never a thought of them.
So I shuffled around distant relatives for a while.
I brought a couple distant cousins.
One - a distant nephew named Zack Harrison.
That distant sound you hear is wedding bells.
There were two follow cars several blocks distant.
A sporocystian energy burst approximately ten light-years distant.
All stranded on a distant planet.
Everyone else is just... just comes a distant, distant second.
People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Examples of Polish presses (other than the beneficiary's) providing services to distant customers constitute further proof that it is possible to offer magazine printing services on distant markets without prohibitive distribution costs.
He heard a low and distant sound.
That could be the angle of perturbation of a distant galaxy.
The fattened aardvark is a distant memory.

Alternatives:

distant from me
far from me

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