11.   On a dry, hard surface, with good tires and well-maintained brakes, locking the wheels and sliding may result in the shortest possible stopping distance.

12.   R. Jay Soward was the deep threat, with no one really expecting him to deviate from the shortest distance between two points.

13.   So the shortest distance between work and the dining table?

14.   So the shortest stopping distance may really be the quickest route to a collision.

15.   The oldest geometry lesson is that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

16.   The shortest distance to a heart attack is a straight line.

17.   The shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.

18.   What was the shortest conceivable distance she would drive?

19.   Whoever was in charge of Olympics routing needed a study in the shortest distance between two points.

20.   Yachts could be tempted to sail into the iceberg-infested waters because they mark part of the Great Circle route, the shortest distance to England.