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Example sentences for "block away"

  • She walked so straight that I thought she had got nothing, but when we entered a saloon a block away, and the swag was produced, I was forced to laugh.

  • And the broad entrance of the station was but half a block away when, with abrupt violence, he threw out his clutch and jammed on his brake.

  • Through her seemingly incessant practice, Angela drove better now; not efficiently or rapidly, but no longer with her first anxious air, stopping short when she saw a wagon a block away.

  • And his heart leapt up within him as they lighted upon the self-propelling conveyance approaching--but half a block away, chugging steadily nearer.

  • It was raining steadily; the river, a block away, was hidden in the yellow fog; down in the yard, the tables and chairs under the poplar dripped and dripped.

  • Sutton was leaning against an electric-light pole, half a block away; Claflin was half a block off in the other direction, in casual conversation with a policeman.

  • Mr. Wynne was idling along, half a block away, without the slightest apparent interest in what was happening behind.

  • A block away in Fifty-fourth Street, between First Avenue and the river, is another Dutch house, though doubtless of much later origin.

  • Sidenote: Bowery Village Church] The quarters becoming cramped, in 1795 the congregation moved to a two-story building a block away, on Nicholas William Street.

  • Around the corner from the church, a block away in Beach Street, is a tiny park, one of the last remnants of the Annetje Jans Farm.

  • At the expiration of some twenty minutes he had emerged, a block away, on the street upon which the millionaire's home fronted.

  • V--CON AMORE TEN minutes later, the car left at the curb half a block away, Dave Henderson was crouched in the darkness at the door of old Tooler's shed that opened on the lane.

  • But, your thought is that there was nobody at least as far as a half a block away?

  • Well, it is a clear view to Pearl Street, but my attention would not have been directed by someone half a block away.

  • The safe deposit building was but half a block away, and we were soon in the office.

  • But if he heard anything of the uproar we had raised he had doubtless placed it to the credit of the leather-lunged orator and his clamorous hearers who held forth but a block away.

  • At the corner of Beale and Harrison Streets we were halted by a densely packed mass of people striving vainly to press forward to a point from which they could get a closer view of the conflagration, now but a block away.

  • I lay there on the doorstep until I found I was getting a soaking, and then I went to a neighbor about a block away, who always had been very kind to me, and had a girl of her own a little younger than me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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