She heard a strangely distant cry, and then there was only darkness.

A distant cry can be heard issuing from a classroom.

This branch, one of five in New York, is a distant cry from the original.

I heard the eerie distant cry of an animal, a coyote or perhaps a night bird.

Sometime later, after a mile or so, Else heard a distant cry, short and sharp.

Her mouth opened in a soft cry too distant to hear.

While amazed men stared, a distant cry came to their ears from far across the lawn.

He called her name, thought he heard a distant cry.

Again, there was nothing, just a distant cry of wind.

Once he thought the wind brought him some distant cry, whether animal or human he could not say.