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Example sentences for "yards apart"

  • The trenches here were close together, at some points not more than 25 yards apart.

  • The frontage allotted to us was a long one, and the front line was thinly held, some of the posts being as much as 200 yards apart.

  • When the trench mortar fire ceased the enemy was seen advancing in an extended line over the open ground left of the Wood and coming through the Wood in groups of about 10 men 50 yards apart.

  • Columns should be 20 yards apart, or more.

  • Target E, 5 yards apart, one for each man firing.

  • The first line is composed of F targets, 5 yards apart, one figure for each man firing.

  • About three quarters of a mile in rear of the center of each line of outposts four flags will be planted, in line, about 30 yards apart.

  • Casualties inflicted by supporting artillery are not probable until the opposing infantry lines are less than 200 yards apart.

  • The field is marked off in chalk lines similar to a tennis court, these lines being 5 yards apart.

  • As a rule, there is no great danger in the steady advance of a line of men, provided they are at close intervals of 5 or 8 yards apart, and that they keep this line intact.

  • It will be seen that by this method there is a chain of communication established throughout the line, both flanks being in touch with the right and left mucharns by watchers in the trees only 50 yards apart.

  • Usually their nests are in the crags, vast accumulations of sticks conspicuously projecting, and generally in pairs, perhaps 100 yards apart, and which are occupied in alternate years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yards apart" 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:
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