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
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 Beard, Daniel Carter
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 Buck, Charles Neville
Wingenund had made little or no effort to conceal his tracks; he had gone northwest, straight as a crow flies, toward the Indian encampment.
From The Spirit of the Border by Grey, Zane
The start was perfect, and the machine swooped toward the distant tower straight as a crow flies and almost as fast.
From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell
