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stone's throw
noun as in short distance
Example Sentences
Members of that same negotiating team - headed by Khalil al-Hayya, whose son was killed in the strike - will now be meeting just a stone's throw from Israel's delegation in Egypt.
A stone’s throw from my apartment, Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is its own dreamscape: 478 acres of parkland laid out in the 19th century, with weathered plots, granite sculptures, mausoleums for the wealthy, all set amid rolling ridges and ravines fringed by elms and azaleas.
The next phase would see the redevelopment of the area where the Stringfellows live, a stone's throw from the shiny new crossing.
But with no other local authority in Scotland or the north of England willing to rehouse her, she eventually settled in Lower Bridge Street, a stone's throw away from her old stomping ground.
Osbourne's Black Sabbath bandmates expressed their sorrow online, and gratitude they had got to appear together one last time on 5 July at Villa Park, a stone's throw from where they all grew up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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