as the crow flies
Example Sentences
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We had a house at the top of Mount Washington where, on a clear day, I could see the downtown skyscrapers surrounding my office—five minutes, as the crow flies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
No, not a stone’s throw but as the crow flies.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024
"We said that a gold mine in Erzincan, which is on an active fault line and 300m away from the Euphrates River as the crow flies, is very dangerous," Mr Torun said.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
On a clear day from the 4,200-foot summit, you can see San Francisco to the north, as well as the entrance to Yosemite Valley, 120 miles east, as the crow flies.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023
They had grown up on farms in Kansas, twenty miles apart as the crow flies, but had not known each other as children.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
