How to Use mile in a Sentence

mile

noun
Definition of milenext
Synonyms for milenext
  • The beach stretched on for miles and miles.
  • We still have miles to go.
  • We were miles from home.
  • We traveled over miles of dirt road.
  • We passed mile after mile of beautiful scenery as we drove through the country.
  • The car was traveling at 70 miles per hour.
  • Do the math and aim to get 1 cent to 1.4 cents per mile.
    — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Ropes were strung over the mouth of the hole, which was more than a mile deep.
    — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Shaughnessy's son Nick had been more than 100 miles away at the time of the murder.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The team plays in Davis, about 15 miles from where the A’s plan to play in Sacramento.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • There’s a two-and-a-half mile loop [on the property] here.
    — Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The split is more than 1 mile long by almost 700 feet wide.
    — Laura Saravia, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • One windbreaker was blown more than 60 miles away in the storm.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
  • The longest-range variant of the weapon can hit targets out to 190 miles.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But between the first and second mile, Nenow made his move.
    — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2022
  • In the new film, Regina is seen logging miles on the treadmill at home.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Debris from Xenia was found as far as 200 miles from the city.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Then venture onto 24 miles of trails to check out the views, or spend the day fishing.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The roundtrip hike is only four miles, but steep, rising 1,500 feet.
    — Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 July 2024
  • It’s also sunk deep into the ground as the venue sits right in the middle of the flight path to LAX, which is about three miles to the west.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • No one was hurt in the blast in Biscuit Basin, 2 miles northwest of Old Faithful.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 25 July 2024
  • About 11 million of them live on an island 90 miles off our shore.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Crews later found the boat off an island about 10 miles west of Sitka.
    — Becky Bohrer and Stefanie Dazio, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2023
  • So, Inslee moved west to the Seattle area, nearly 150 miles from his home base in the city of Yakima.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Mesquite is east of Dallas, about 45 miles from downtown Fort Worth.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The twister lasted over an hour and had a maximum path width of three-quarters of a mile.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Kaibab Lodge: This complex of cabins about 17 miles north of the North Rim is billed as a calm escape from the desert heat in the summer.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The city is located 20 miles south of Boston, and Witt made trips to Fenway as a kid.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2024
  • In the same week, in New Zealand, over 9,000 miles away, Dunedin airport introduced a change in travel behavior that caused quite a stir.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The journey took him thousands of miles across land, mountain and sea before his ultimate arrival in Paris.
    — Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

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