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.
  • 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
  • One windbreaker was blown more than 60 miles away in the storm.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 adults can move several miles in a day, and females can lay some 1,500 eggs in their lifetime.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Nuggets’ victory at Denver’s Ball Arena took place about one mile away from the crime scene.
    — Matt Bonesteel, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • The controller tried to direct the pilot to a runway about 2 miles from his location.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Silva sprang from her chair to process what was happening to the evidence in her case just a few miles away.
    — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • How Hazel’s bird got to a lake hundreds of miles from the ocean — likely traveling alone — is anybody’s guess.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
  • After searching the flood channel, deputies said Piza was found about 5 miles away in the neighboring city of Perris.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Foley is in southern Alabama, about 10 miles north of Gulf Shores.
    — Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • To arrange flights, Give A Mile asks for donations of frequent flyer miles or cash.
    — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 19 July 2023
  • Ukraine claims to have taken about 12 square miles of territory around Bakhmut.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • About 25 miles in the distance, Mount Amiata looms, an extinct volcano set between the provinces of Siena and Grosseto and the source of the hot springs.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Eventually, his aides were told Navalny had been transferred from the colony in the Vladimir region, which is just over 100 miles east of Moscow.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the growth has been concentrated in the northeastern part of the county, just a few miles from Walt Disney World in metro Orlando.
    — Mike Schneider, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Ash and debris will be resting on streets and private property in the area, possibly as far as one mile away, the county said.
    — Austindedios, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • He was returned via helicopter to Valledupar, a town in the northeastern part of the country, 57 miles south of Barrancas.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023

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