How to Use mile in a Sentence

mile

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • From the first mile split to the finish, senior Colin Goldschmidt passed 25.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Hurricane-force winds extend up to 15 miles from the storm's center.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Category 3 means winds exceeding speeds of 111 miles per hour.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024

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