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shouting distance
noun as in short distance
Weak match
Example Sentences
By sunrise they had made their way to the bottom of the steep face the woman was trapped on, and they were within shouting distance of her, but they still couldn’t reach her.
Labour should have been within shouting distance of regaining control of Durham -but their vote tumbled.
But I was surprised when I arrived to find it well within shouting distance of several homes.
Within shouting distance from the deck, CEO Mikael Petterson said they would be sailing off "any minute now".
Where the two sides were even within shouting distance of each other was vanishingly small, if it existed at all.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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