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stone's throw

NOUN
  1. a short distance
    it's only a step to the drugstore

How To Use stone's throw In A Sentence

  • It is huge - two bedrooms plus a "solarium" (that's what they call it up there), so we would each have our own office (yippee!), tons of closets, beautiful new kitchen (dishwasher!) and bathroom, balcony, fireplace, in an immaculately maintained building with a fitness room, a pool, a parking spot for $50/month (you can't park a tire for $50 in NYC), and it's a stone's throw from the train. Archive 2004-07-01
  • At a fish-and-chip shop called the Balancing Eel, a stone's throw from the quayside, cod, haddock, plaice and sole are the fish of choice with scampi and prawn fritters close behind.
  • Socialites decked out in their finest Chanel tweeds fanned themselves with their invitation cards as temperatures climbed inside the venue, a stone's throw from the Louvre museum.
  • And it lies within a stone's throw of the most intensively used footpath on the North York Moors.
  • We live just a stone's throw from here.
  • Aston Martins and Bentleys are on display in the auto pavilion just a stone's throw from the latest John Deere models.
  • The cottage is just a stone's throw from the sea.
  • The hotel is only a stone's throw from the beach.
  • Walter Scheel was born in Solingen, the capital of West Germany's cutlery industry, just a stone's throw from the giant blast furnaces of the Ruhr and adjacent to the teeming city of Cologne. The Aims and Responsibilities of German Foreign Policy
  • A stone's throw from the traffic and diversity of nearby Arusha, Tanzania, a village community -- what we might call neighborhood -- is preserved in the distinctly non-urban, tribal traditions which overlay the foundational stratigraphy of East Africa. Charles R. Wolfe: Envisioning the Blend: Tradition, Tourism and Sustainability
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