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Example sentences for "five paces"

  • This is the longest carrying-place in this river, and is about two thousand and thirty-five paces.

  • Then follows the Mountain Portage, where the canoe and lading are also carried three hundred and eighty-five paces; then to the Decharge of the Derige, where the goods are carried two hundred and fifty paces; and thence to the grand Calumet.

  • Four half companies, extended to five paces, formed the firing line of each battalion, supported at 200 paces distance by the remainder of these four companies, also extended to five paces.

  • This chamber is thirty-five paces in length by fifteen in breadth.

  • Its main body consists of an oblong square, the interior of which is about twenty-five paces in length, and eighteen in breadth.

  • About twenty, twenty-five paces further on, there'll be a second entrance, a bigger one.

  • There were at least a dozen men in Mankind with skill great enough to bring him down even at twenty or twenty-five paces.

  • He must be about thirty, thirty-five paces from it.

  • Five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half.

  • I had taken aim at it the moment it started; I ought to have let it approach within twenty or ten or five paces; but I had not the strength: when it was within about thirty paces, I fired full in its face.

  • I was cured of my fancy for firing at its head; moreover, this one promised to pass me broadside on, within twenty-five paces, and it kept its promise.

  • The seconds had just measured the forty-five paces.

  • Colonel Anderson, "you are now forty-five paces apart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five books; five children; five degrees; five different; five dollars; five drops; five feet; five grains; five horizontal; five mile; five miles from the; five millions; five pairs; five pieces; five regiments; five rupees; five sail; five seconds; five stories; five times; five volumes; five years; former president; paused again; rock crystal; wild rose