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Example sentences for "eighty yards"

  • This creek had a sandy channel ten yards wide, with low banks, subject to flood to the breadth of fifty to eighty yards.

  • The arrow had pierced it from front to rear completely through and was lost; a center shot at eighty yards; a most remarkable bit of archery and hunting stratagem.

  • At a range of sixty or eighty yards, the head of the arrow seems to touch the mark while aiming.

  • There, eighty yards away, stood a three-year-old buck, grazing under an oak.

  • For this reason it is easier to split the willow wand at sixty or eighty yards than it seems.

  • The moss troopers were now but seventy or eighty yards behind.

  • It was about four miles' ride to the point where the road divided, one branch going towards the river, some seventy or eighty yards away.

  • They had gone some seventy or eighty yards, when they heard a stifled exclamation; and then, without further attempt at concealment, two figures rose from a bush twenty yards ahead, and fled for the forest.

  • This spear can be thrown to the distance of seventy or eighty yards, and it will have sufficient force to penetrate through a man's body.

  • We can stalk them then, and I think at eighty yards we ought to be able to kill them at a single shot.

  • On measuring the width of this deep cleft by sextant, it was found at Garden Island, its narrowest part, to be eighty yards, and at its broadest somewhat more.

  • A dyke of black basaltic rock, called Kakolole, crosses the river near the mouth of the Sinjere; but it has two open gateways in it of from sixty to eighty yards in breadth, and the channel is very deep.

  • The Nemahaw empties itself into the Missouri from the south, and is eighty yards wide at the confluence, which is in lat.

  • At its confluence it is eighty yards wide.

  • It is separated from the northern shore by a small channel of from forty-five to eighty yards wide, up which we passed, and found near the western extremity of the island the mouth of the river Nodawa.

  • This stream falls into a bend on the south side of the Missouri, and is eighty yards wide.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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