MILE in a Sentence
Learn MILE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
282 example sentences for MILE, such as:
1. The island was three mile long.
2. In Hookerville, seven mile below.
3. Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
4. We've still got another forty miles to go.
5. Children here walk several miles to school.
2. In Hookerville, seven mile below.
3. Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
4. We've still got another forty miles to go.
5. Children here walk several miles to school.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of MILE
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mile
n. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
n. a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
2 The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current.
3 The little steam ferry-boat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current.
4 When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work.
5 So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
6 Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
7 A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.
8 The island was three mile long.
9 Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went 'bout two mile er more to whah dey warn't no houses.'
10 I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
11 In Hookerville, seven mile below.
12 Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
13 Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go.
14 This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.
15 It had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1 Young mothers talk a mile a minute over their babies.
2 The department occupies an office just a mile from the White House.
3 It's a mile round the circumference of the field.
4 Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots.
5 We drove through mile after mile of land cleared for pasture.
6 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
7 It's almost ten miles from here to the civic center.
8 There is also a golf course five miles away.
9 We've still got another forty miles to go.
10 Two miles further on we came to a small town.
11 Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up.
12 The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.
13 The next stage of the trip is about one hundred miles.
14 Their unit was shelling the German lines only seven miles away.
15 Children here walk several miles to school.