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Example sentences for "few hundred yards away"

  • On one occasion the Yankees had a post in a house a few hundred yards away, across a wooded ravine, and the captain of the battery concluded he would shell this Yankee post.

  • So we paddled on our way, glimpsing every now and then over the parapets at the German lines a few hundred yards away, and at a village in which the enemy was intrenched, quiet and sinister there.

  • To the right, a few hundred yards away, was Masingarbe, from which many of our troops marched out to begin the great attack.

  • A landmark in that flat and devastated region, every detail of this gaunt sentinel had long since become familiar to the keen eyed observers in the German trenches, a few hundred yards away.

  • Standing on the sands, a few hundred yards away, were half a dozen targets of the size and outline of German soldiers.

  • It was true that he was but a stable boy, but he was within the precincts of the castle of Auersperg, and Julie was but a few hundred yards away.

  • There was Chastel only a few hundred yards away, now clearly visible despite the massive clouds that floated persistently across the sky.

  • He knew that the horse was conquered, overcome chiefly by his own struggles, and letting him breathe a little he urged him straight forward in the road toward the castle, which was only a few hundred yards away.

  • It stood near a path, much frequented by elephants, leading to a salt lick in the hills a few hundred yards away.

  • While Captain Balderston and I took up our abode in Forest Lodge, the sepoys bivouacked a few hundred yards away on a high bluff over a broad river-bed now almost dry.

  • It must have been a fine sight to see the big cat bounding across the bare plain until he reached and plunged into a parallel nullah a few hundred yards away.

  • Call now answered to call, and they were only a few hundred yards away.

  • Although they were only a few hundred yards away, Henry felt that there was little danger.

  • His own feet grew heavy, and he heard the triumphant shouts of the Indians only a few hundred yards away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "few hundred yards away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    few days before his; few days before the; few drops; few feet; few feet above the; few feet from the; few hours; few hundred; few inches; few months; few paces; few weeks; few yards; few years; few years before the; fewer than; funeral rites; heard anything; human actions; little need; morbid anatomy; pleasure excursion; present condition; ranges from; rising early; wedding dress