1.   A small mention of the scenic views in a guidebook caught my attention because each location was within hailing distance from a major city I was scheduled to visit.

2.   Esthetically, they are hardly within hailing distance, and yet they would not be what they are without their very different choreographers.

3.   Ms. Valtat, an elegant unknown, came within hailing distance of a well-rounded interpretation, and Ms. Durante made up in technical brilliance for her inexplicable stern demeanor.

4.   Of course, it would take almost a conscious act of will for anyone within hailing distance of a television or newsstand not to be aware of the fictionalizing.

5.   Similarly, environmentalists stood within hailing distance of their historic adversaries from the sugar cane industry.

6.   The spacecraft are expected to travel for thousands of years, eventually within hailing distance of other stars.

7.   Theirs was a freewheeling style that won them a ton of games and brought them to the very brink of one title and within hailing distance of two others.