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

Sit up without noise and look—there is a herd of deer feeding down the narrow valley close at hand within a stone's-throw.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir

We had come about within stone’s-throw, so that the bleak walls, echoing upon us, doubled the thunder of the sea.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

Coming within a stone's-throw of the beach, they called out that Roldan should embark.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

"She looks so well," he said to himself, "she must be all right—" II Miss Harriet's house, called by Old Chester children "The Stuffed-Animal House," was on the hill-road a stone's-throw beyond the burial-ground.

From Dr. Lavendar's People by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell