Sleep seems like a distant possibility, yet parents insist that the child remain in bed with the lights off.

But he said that at the moment, any such development loomed only as a distant possibility.

There is also the distant but real possibility of getting knocked in the head.

Considering what they were about to discuss, that seemed more than a distant possibility.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

The two men had to admit that those explanations were distant possibilities.

We've come here by a ship that couldn't even have been considered a distant possibility in your own era.

Although she had written poetry and stories, a literary career seemed only a distant possibility.

My previous beliefs about extraterrestrial life were always based on a distant possibility.

But for the moment, that is only a distant possibility.