Sentence examples for half a mile off from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tod is a fox who, understandably, makes the rabbits very uncomfortable—"They could smell him half a mile off"—and Tommy Brock is a badger, who, Potter writes ominously, "did occasionally eat rabbit-pie; but it was only very little young ones only occasionally".

After a while, all hands adjourned to the house, half a mile off, where the senior Mrs. Ripley, who lives there most of the year, greeted them cordially.

I came across it on my first trip, half a mile off the coast.

The child had reportedly drifted more than half a mile off the western Turkish shore before the boat reached her.

Though in fact they eventually stuck the pin half a mile off its edge, in East Yorkshire.

Divers on Tuesday continued to retrieve bodies from the boat, which sank after catching fire half a mile off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa last Thursday.

"The Germans were only half a mile back off the beach.

Keeping an eye out for the Bronco, Ms. Hernandez said, she spotted it half a mile to a mile off the road on which she was driving and notified the sheriff's office.

The tunnel ran for almost half a mile, with wooden planks holding off the earth on all sides.

When I lay in bed and looked at my hands, my fingers stretched off half a mile into the distance.

Half a mile down the road she turned off and drove to the edge of a coulee that ran through a section of fallow pasture.