stone's throw

Example Sentences

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A stone's-throw from the campus stands the First Presbyterian Church, where the Presidents of Princeton have worshipped.

From Time Magazine Archive

Does one call Mr. Swinburne a Londoner because he, a Northumbrian by a long line of ancestors, chanced to be born within a stone’s-throw of Belgrave Square? 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

The leaves on the forest trees within a stone’s-throw of the house made no movement.

From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

And yet not a stone's-throw from where I lie, half hidden beneath an overhanging rock, is the Pool of Healing.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

Dove Lane was but a stone's-throw ahead when some of the load shifted, and the truck was stopped to set the matter right.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur