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Example sentences for "short distance above the"

  • This is gained by turning the left arm round the handle of the paddle, until the hand is a short distance above the blade, and the shaft rests against the shoulder.

  • It facilitates skinning of birds to break, before commencing, the first bone of the wings a short distance above the joint, which causes the members to lie open when the specimen is laid on its back on the skinning board.

  • Meek (1839) says "there can be little doubt that Chiaha was situated but a short distance above the junction of the Coosa and Chattooga rivers," i.

  • Situation which is a Short distance above the enterance of Corvus Creek we are deturmined to delay one day for the purpose of prcureing the sceletins of the Mule deer & antilope, and Some barking Squirels.

  • Short distance above the mouth of this Creek, is Several Courious Paintings and Carveing in the projecting rock of Limestone inlade with white red & blue flint, of a verry good quallity, the Indians have taken of this flint great quantities.

  • With the aid of guides from the fort, we succeeded, with very great difficulty, in fording it, and encamped near the fort, which is situated a short distance above the junction of two branches which make the river.

  • I found our people encamped on the bank, a short distance above the fort.

  • Shafer informed me that there were holes, the remains of old houses on the flat in the Naches Valley, twelve miles above the Nelson Bridge which crosses the river a short distance above the mouth of Cowiche Creek.

  • Shafer informed me that he knows of painted rocks in the Teton River Valley, 20 miles above the Nelson Bridge, which crosses the Naches a short distance above the mouth of Cowiche Creek.

  • It is a short distance above the head of Priest Rapids.

  • Cherokee country in the Indian Territory, to fall into the Arkansaw a short distance above the mouth of the Canadian.

  • Pike's map letters "Rio de la Culebra") was passed a short distance above the Conejos.

  • The "large drift" in the Little Osage which stopped the boats is marked and so legended on the map, a short distance above the forks.

  • A northern tributary of Beaver creek, a short distance above the junction of the Palo Duro, Oklahoma.

  • A mountain in Colorado described as being north of Arkansas river, a short distance above the river of Colorado Springs, and on an extreme northern head branch of the Arkansas.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short distance above the" 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:
    another volume; are still; long periods; make herself; mechanical power; reduced from; short account; short circuit; short circuited; short circuits; short description; short flight; short intervals; short laugh; short length; short life; short order; short reign; short rest; short speech; short walk; short while; shorten sail; shortened sail; shortly before his death; small cove