a stone's throw

noun

: a short distance
The high school is just a stone's throw from his house.
She lives just a stone's throw away from the beach.

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Blue Origin Floating under three red-and-blue parachutes, the New Shepard capsule touched down a stone's throw from the booster's concrete landing pad, closer than any previous landing. William Harwood, CBS News, 29 June 2025 The restaurant, Little Rey, will open later this spring at 2019 West End Avenue, a stone's throw from Vanderbilt's campus. Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 This includes one with a crowd of over 2,000 in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, a 45-minute drive from Middletown and just a stone's throw away from Vance's home in East Walnut Hills. Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Meanwhile, dishes at the restaurant brim with local ingredients, including wasabi, an Okutama specialty that is grown a stone's throw away. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025 Andy Rice, the program's director, said the group was staying at an apartment complex in the Toluca Hills area, just a stone's throw away from the Sunset fire. Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2025 Moscow vowed to retaliate and has started intensive reforms of its forces in the northwest of the country, including expanding the military facilities a stone's throw from Finland and Estonia, a fellow NATO member just to the south of Helsinki. Ellie Cook — Reporting From Rovajärvi, Northern Finland, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025 Helberg awoke on Thursday to discover the massive bow of the NCL Salten resting a stone's throw from his home in Byneset, Norway, near Trondheim. Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025 The remains were found just a stone's throw from pop megastar Taylor Swift's beachside mansion in the town. Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025

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