as the crow flies

ADVERB
  1. by the shortest and most direct route
    it's 10 miles as the crow flies
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How To Use as the crow flies In A Sentence

  • We were constantly rewarded with stunning scenic views and the satisfaction of navigating challenging terrain with ease, but we didn't get very far, as the crow flies.
  • No more would the swaggies need to walk as the crow flies as the Princes Highway was opened, linking Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne.
  • The source of the river was over 8km away as the crow flies, and we had come prepared for a long trip.
  • How far is it from here to Nottingham? — Twenty miles as the crow flies.
  • The distance is less than seven miles as the crow flies, but is 13 miles by water, because of the twists and turns of the river.
  • it's 10 miles as the crow flies
  • The villages are no more than a mile apart as the crow flies.
  • From Daggett, a forsaken station of the Santa Fé Railroad, a "jerkwater" road, as it is called, extends northward to Goldfield and Tonopah, and this road takes one almost as the crow flies to the edge of the valley of the ominous name. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
  • Despite being less than a mile from a suburban neighborhood, and less than 15 miles from Seattle as the crow flies, it felt pretty remote up there. The Trails of Redmond « PubliCola
  • For example, one might assess whether the distance along a river or a topographic isocline is more biologically relevant than distance ‘as the crow flies.’
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