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

What if our hero had known that the ruffian whose name he mentioned was at that very moment within little more than a stone’s-throw!

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

The slab lies a stone's-throw to the left of the great northern road to Tengri Nor and Mongolia, about two miles from the city.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund

Tom lay in the dark, away from it all, under it all, in the distant little cemetery of Nervi, where the sea that he loved shone and danced within a stone's-throw of his folded hands.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti

In a populous city, however sudden the casualty may be to which a fellow-creature may fall a victim, the means of relief are within a stone's-throw from the spot.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various