From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfar-flungˌfar-ˈflung adjective 1 FARvery distantfar-flung corners/places/regions etc expeditions to far-flung corners of the globe people flying to far-flung destinations2 SPREADspread out over a very large area Email enables far-flung friends to keep in touch.
Examples from the Corpus
far-flung• Participants come from nations as far-flung as Iceland and Japan.• He's gone off hiking in some far-flung corner of Alaska.• One friend, a lawyer, swears by e-mail because it helps her keep in touch with far-flung friends.• On a far-flung front we must wage war.• So, sometimes running and sometimes walking, she made her way quickly across the far-flung heath.• We think we know it all now, and banish our far-flung ideas from this world into Space.• Our job is to organize the company's far-flung offices.• The company operates a number of far-flung offices.• It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flung reaches of the country.far-flung corners/places/regions etc• Peter had bought the car from Cohn Crabbe, that inveterate discoverer of lost cars in far-flung places.• The system of counties was essential to Frankish government, and a count could wield considerable power, particularly in far-flung regions.• Dance artists are starting to appear regularly in these apparently far-flung corners of Britain. 