Sentence examples for half a block off from inspiring English sources

The taxi pulled away, only to be stopped half a block off by a red light.

It doesn't hurt that all this eccentricity is located less than half a block off a chain-store-clogged stretch of Broadway, proving the old, weird SoHo isn't gone entirely.

A blocked-off smuggler's tunnel runs underneath the house.

They found an empty garage half a block away.

It's a half a block from my office.

Hotel de la Soledad (52-443-312-1888; www.halfedad.com), a half block off the main square, has colonial-style rooms, a grassy courtyard and antique coaches in the galleries.

The GTO threw up a screech and a cloud of vaporized rubber, and shot off for half a block, until it had to slow for a pothole.

The Mayne Stage also has the cheapest valet in the city at $5, incredibly NO service fee for buying tickets on-line and is a half block off the red line.

Getting onto the bus, getting off the bus, walking half a block to her building was like climbing a cliff.

Half a block away, a long section of sidewalk had been closed off by an orange mesh fence, forcing Levinson to walk on a narrow strip of street bordered by a low wall of concrete blocks.

Runners included Phil Kent, Jennifer Hartman and Renee Opell, all from Los Angeles, who were half a block from the finish line last year when the bombs went off.