as a crow flies

One possible explanation is that shaking waves didn’t come in the same direction as a crow flies; as the shaking hit mountain ranges, the energy waves may have taken a circuitous path around them.

“As a crow flies, it’s a mile over there to where I live. Some I can tell really well because they got special marks on them.”

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.

He hit a shot as straight as a crow flies, watched it roll toward a flag 250 yards away and muttered, “I almost whiffed that one.”

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."