1.   As civilisation evolved painters noted that near objects can overlap distant objects.

2.   Telescopes help people see distant objects.

3.   The telescope can discern objects incredibly distant in space.

4.   This is why the method is often applied to soften and diffuse distant objects or hills, as in atmospheric perspective.

5.   The distant object of his affections is Caroline.

6.   Newton worried about that when his theory of gravitation required apparently instantaneous interaction between two distant objects.

7.   A very distant object has to be extremely large to produce an image of appreciable size.