Sentence examples for farther close from inspiring English sources

Compared with the crude, homemade Qassam rockets it had used in the past, the latest rockets have been more accurate and have flown farther — close to two dozen miles, enough to reach the southern Israeli cities of Ashdod and Beersheba.

This increased the effective length of the draw since it began farther forward, close to the archer's left hand.

About a 10-minute walk farther west, close to the Second Ring Road, is the Changzhou Hotel, which has a lunch and excellent dinner menu featuring the fresh and mild cuisine of the Yangtze River Jiangnan area.

He said Serbia would not "put up any walls" but suggested his country will not agree to be the only refugee stop if countries farther west close their borders.

When Julia sat down she placed herself farther away, close to the armrest.

The seals are also migrating farther west, closer to New York Harbor.

You may not notice a bird is keeping its farther eye closed sometimes.

Farther inland, closer to the towering Citigroup Center, a new neighborhood is rising from scratch.

But many others, including the Podesta Group, Van Scoyoc Associates and Dutko Worldwide, are much farther east -- closer to the lawmakers who are the focus of most lobbyists' attention.

Farther south, closer to the epicenter, people around Beichuan, a town that was flattened by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, also began fleeing because of flood warnings related to a choked river.

The merchants wanted the warehouse farther uptown, closer to the ships and to their storehouses, and warned that thousands of additional wagon trips would fill the streets of Lower Manhattan.