as a crow flies
Example Sentences
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As the chase ends, Sutter gets in one last piece of religious symbology as a crow flies, and a meal of bread and wine appear on the side of the road.
From Time ● Dec. 10, 2014
"Nigh to Lord Mohun's house at Boconnoc: seven mile away to the south, and seven mile or so from Bodmin, as a crow flies."
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Some emigrant—terrification seize him!—has found another park an’ squatted, t’ain’t more’n eight miles as a crow flies from mine, nuther, Le-loo.”
From The Black Wolf Pack by Daniel Carter Beard
Jonathan traveled toward the east straight as a crow flies.
From The Last Trail by Zane Grey
Straight as a crow flies, Newt Spooner was making his way across crest and cove and gulch to the house of the man he had "marked down."
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
