shouting distance

Those inclined to zip directly to the tail end of the at-large field of any NCAA tournament bracket projection are probably already thinking the phrase that truly means college basketball’s postseason is drawing within shouting distance.

Their leader, Njie, still going by “Dave” during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.

“The level of outside support… has not been sufficient enough for them to distance themselves from al Nusra,” Cafarella said.

His hands outstretched, shoulders in submission, there was no shouting, no expletives, no aggression at all.

Deck your halls instead with boughs of holly, shouting “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Hanukkah”) well into the night.

Gone are the days when commercials were the talk of the watercooler—or, rather, the reason everyone was shouting “Wahhzzzzzuupp?”

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

And the others, not knowing that he had that day repented, sat at their distance and tried to form no conclusion.