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Sentences ending with yards

He named sixty-five yards. [5]
The distance covered was four hundred yards. [5]
They are able to fly a hundred yards. [5]
This is said to beat the English professional record by thirteen yards. [5]
She did not stop for at least three hundred yards. [11]
The 'Bon homme Richard' was lumbering like a leaden ship before the wind, swaying ponderously, her topsails flapping and her heavy blocks whacking against the yards. [9]
Before the depth reached his middle he was half-way over; the current would permit no more wading, now, so he struck out confidently to swim the remaining hundred yards. [5]
In the casting of that bottle the Celebrity had given vent to some of the feelings he had been collecting overnight, and it must have carried about thirty yards. [9]
Without waiting for instructions, I gave the command: "Up royal yards! [9]
I couldn't see how he was going to make his way a single yard into that solid oncoming wave of people--yet he must plow through it full 50 yards. [5]

Short sentences using yards

It was ten yards away. [5]
Perfect, for the distance--fifteen yards. [5]
A hundred yards? [5]

Sentences containing yards two or more times

Joan walked two yards behind the Count, we three walked two yards behind Joan. [5]
The Study is 30 yards below the old arbor and 200 yards above the dwelling-house-it is remote from all noises..... Now isn't the whole thing pleasantly situated? [5]

More example sentences with the word yards in them

Is it possible you can answer up, right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three yards from you? [5]
I said: "Sixty-five yards, with these instruments? [5]
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. [5]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
There was fourteen yards in the piece. [5]
Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]
Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered. [2]
When they were within three hundred yards he deliberately led Wrangle out into the trail. [13]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
When he was within fifty yards of the house, four Arabs intercepted him. [11]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
Two horsemen were within a hundred yards, coming straight at him. [13]
He was standing with the group of marksmen, observing--a hundred yards from the target, mind; one jasper raised his rifle and drove the centre of the bull's-eye. [5]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets. [2]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
It was sunset when they started, and they had not gone a thousand yards before some of the mutineering ships opened fire on the Ariadne. [11]
The Belloc people were delighted, but they lived in daily fear of a strike in their own yards, for agitators were busy amongst their workmen. [11]
The cocks still were crowing in the yards, and the country-folk were coming into town with asses and waggons, when I mounted my horse to ride forth with my brother. [10]
By the time we were entirely around and pointed, the first buoy was not more than a hundred yards in front of us. [5]
Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
At this point we observed that an English flag had just been placed at half-mast on a building a hundred yards away. [5]
I found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices. [5]
I stood and watched the mills and the yards, and listened to the saws, and looked at the great slide, and the logs on the river: and I said ever to myself that it was all mine-- all. [11]
When the horseman was within a hundred and fifty yards of him, the moon shone out suddenly and revealed each of them to the other. [6]
The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. [2]
The concession road was blocked before day had well set in; no horse could go ten yards in it. [11]
It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
The young gallants used to go into the yards and spy about the galleries and boxes for their acquaintances. [4]
His look fell upon the long pathway whereon, for three hundred yards, matting had been spread. [11]
A hundred yards up began a line of grotesque cedar-trees, and they extended along the slope clear to its most southerly end. [13]
We went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up. [5]
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
And it was true, although the little white parsonage was scarce two hundred yards from the tannery house. [9]
We left the trolley-car and tramped through the mud a hundred yards or so to the school, talking about the time we and Warner walked out there years ago, and the pleasant time we had. [5]
The traction engine travels about on its own wheels, till it reaches the required spot; then it stands still and by means of a wire rope pulls the huge plow toward itself two or three hundred yards across the field, between the rows of cane. [5]
At noon we took a swim in the Sea of Galilee--a blessed privilege in this roasting climate--and then lunched under a neglected old fig-tree at the fountain they call Ain-et-Tin, a hundred yards from ruined Capernaum. [5]
It was useless to try to follow them, for their footfalls could make no sound, and one could pass within two yards of the creatures and never see them. [5]
Then we turned to the right up the range; we went, I daresay, one hundred and fifty yards from the creek, and there we sat down with the men. [5]
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
The chute seemed to come to an end every fifty yards, but always opened out in time. [5]
All went well till he was within a hundred yards of the wheel, though now and again he could hear sentries snoring or talking just above him. [11]
The road lay through the middle of an empty space which seemed to me to be a hundred yards wide between the fences. [5]
The men came; they arrived within about fifteen yards when I stepped up and said, 'Stand! [5]
The hut in the wood where Gabriel Druse had carried Jethro Fawe was not three hundred yards away. [11]
The next day, the weather being foul, they ran so near the Frenchman as to endanger their yards, and Chambers called to Captain Smith to come aboard or he would leave him. [4]
Here we have the smooth and placidly-complaining sea at our door, with nothing between us and it but 20 yards of shingle--and hardly a suggestion of life in that space to mar it or make a noise. [5]
Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes--and ducks too, you might say, in the season. [5]
As he entered the place he was suddenly brought to a standstill, for not two dozen yards away at a counter was Jasmine Byng. [11]
Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt--Dicky, not the Mudir. [11]
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. [5]
Fifty yards down the gulch they had found him--that is, they had found a crushed and lifeless mass which represented him. [5]
Before its advent, the Goodriches and Gores, the Warings, the Prestons and the Atterburys lived leisurely lives in a sleepy quarter of shade trees and spacious yards and muddy macadam streets, now passed away forever. [9]
Then he fired the fuse, climbed out of the shaft, and ran fifty yards away, Fetlock following. [5]
As soon as the fact was ascertained, seven of them had seceded and had seized upon the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property of the United States within their boundaries, and were making every preparation for war. [7]
Hence it caught the eye of any one who passed by, even at the distance of many yards, and no doubt that of every passing bird. [1]
His voice was the effortless deep bass of a church organ, and would disturb the tranquility of a gas flame fifty yards away. [5]
And here came the buggy--overboard went the man, and in less time than I can tell it the vehicle was distributed in small fragments along three hundred yards of street. [5]
Nearer and nearer the boat of prisoners approached the stone steps of the landing, and we were several hundred yards behind. [11]
It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time. [13]
At ten o'clock that evening the Rostov family and the wounded traveling with them were all distributed in the yards and huts of that large village. [2]
Very well; eyes that cannot see a house-fly that is a hundred yards away cannot see an ordinary nailhead at that distance, for the size of the two objects is the same. [5]
And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour--and even then somebody generally had to go after him. [5]
At three o'clock that afternoon, 25 days out from Honolulu, both ships entered the Golden Gate of San Francisco side by side, and 300 yards apart. [5]
Sandy passed within ten yards of me on a mule--hunting for me, I imagined. [5]
He was within ten yards of it, and had fired his last shot, when a bullet crashed through his jaw. [11]
We saw a tall wooden scaffolding on the very peak of the summit, a hundred yards away, and made for it. [5]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
It's the next street, a few hundred yards down, on the left. [11]
But these people stopped, two or three hundred yards away, and this troubled me. [5]
He placed the stones some yards apart. [13]
The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride. [5]
The man went staggering off to overtake his horse, and didn't know what had hit him, for we was three or four hundred yards up in the air by this time. [5]
At Bordeaux, the Spanish detectives were on the shore gnashing their teeth, when he was a hundred yards away at sea on the Antoine. [11]
The thicket was some one hundred and fifty yards above, and on the flooded lands at a bend. [9]
As he did so, he was conscious of another wagon and horses a few yards away. [11]
The snow lay so deep on the ground that there was no sign of a road perceptible, and the snow-fall was so thick that we could not see more than a hundred yards ahead, else we could have guided our course by the mountain ranges. [5]
Suddenly, at a slight bend of the road, the corner of the little red building came in sight, some hundreds of yards ahead; and, on the side where it stood, in the clearing, was a white mass which Victoria recognized as a pile of lumber. [9]
Within the next six hundred yards he crossed the street fourteen times and attempted thirteen gates, and in the meantime the tropical sun was beating down and threatening to cave the top of my head in, and I was literally dripping with perspiration. [5]
One on either side of the old man, they went with him up the hillside for about three hundred yards, to the door of his house, which was little more than a cave in a sudden lift of the hill. [11]
There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more. [5]
We got front seats, and while the train moved along about fifty yards on level ground, I was not the least frightened; but now it started abruptly downstairs, and I caught my breath. [5]
The streets are roughly and badly paved with stone, and are tolerably crooked--enough so to make each street appear to close together constantly and come to an end about a hundred yards ahead of a pilgrim as long as he chooses to walk in it. [5]
Glass shattered, and roofs swept away or collapsed 200 yards off; fragment of iron flung three and a half miles. [5]
We had been robbed of all the fine mountain scenery on our little journey by a system of railroading that had three miles of tunnel to a hundred yards of daylight, and we were not inclined to be sociable with Florence. [5]
It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. [5]
As though in response to an unspoken thought, he said casually: "I'm going to walk awhile when you've lain down, and then--" He pointed to a spot about twenty yards away. [11]
I chose a reposeful Sabbath-day sort of a back street which was about thirty yards wide between the curbstones. [5]
Lise, her waist removed, was seated in a rocking chair at the window overlooking the littered yards and the backs of the tenements on Rutger Street. [9]
The sound thus produced can sometimes be heard at the distance of several feet or even yards (73. [1]
When we had proceeded some yards and were entering darkness, we turned about and had a dainty sunlit picture of distant woods and heights framed in the strong arch of the tunnel and seen through the tender blue radiance of the tunnel's atmosphere. [5]
As at Pilcher's Point, for instance, where the cabins had been moved back three hundred yards in three months, so we were told; but the caving banks had already caught up with them, and they were being conveyed rearward once more. [5]
The Rock of Perce was a wall, three hundred feet high, and the wall was an island that had once been a long promontory like a battlement, jutting out hundreds of yards into the gulf. [11]
He had not penetrated the forest of oaks for a hundred yards, had not approached anywhere near the line of willows and cottonwoods which he knew grew along a stream. [13]
I started her out once, sir--Colonel Bilgewater, you recollect that animal perfectly well --I started her out about thirty or thirty-five yards ahead of the awfullest storm I ever saw in my life, and it chased us upwards of eighteen miles! [5]

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