as a crow flies
Example Sentences
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As the chase ends, Sutter gets in one last piece of religious symbology as a crow flies, and a meal of bread and wine appear on the side of the road.
From Time • Dec. 10, 2014
The start was perfect, and the machine swooped toward the distant tower straight as a crow flies and almost as fast.
From Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday, Russell
Jonathan traveled toward the east straight as a crow flies.
From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane
Set all the sails, and Green, do you steer as straight as a crow flies for the Channel of Balintang.
From The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Spillman, Joseph
"Eighteen miles as a crow flies; longer by trail."
From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane
