'mile' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'mile' with 20 example sentences.
- mile noun
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: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
: a large distance
: a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
: a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
: a footrace extending one mile
The average ocean depth is 2.3 miles.
Today I walked eight miles.
It's only three miles to the village.
The station is two miles away.
The bridge is approximately a mile long.
A man has walked 200 miles in protest of Brexit.
The train was going 500 miles per hour.
We have another ten miles to walk before sunset.
The post office is about three miles past the high school.
This submarine can dive more than a mile deep.
She walked twenty miles a day.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
This river is 500 miles in length.
Our bus broke down three miles from town.
The island is about two miles off the coast.
I walk twenty miles a day.
How many miles is it to the next gas station?
He is capable of running a mile in four minutes.
I had not gone a mile when it began to rain.
The road stays straight for the next 50 miles.