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What does mile mean?
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Examples mile examples
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Simple sentences
I ran for a mile.
He stinks a mile off.
If you give him an inch, he'll take a mile.
I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.
A miss is as good as a mile.
My house is only a mile from here.
The island lies a mile off the coast.
The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.
The bridge is approximately a mile long.
The school is a half-mile walk from my house.
This river is one mile across.
It is about 1 mile from here to the station.
I had not gone a mile when it began to rain.
A mile is equal to about 1600 meters.
I walked about a mile.
The island is nearly a mile across.
It is no more than half a mile to the sea.
I had hardly walked a mile when it began to thunder.
He can swim a mile.
There's going to be a three-mile race tomorrow.
I can spot a bleached blonde from a mile away.
There's a grueling uphill stretch of road at mile 23 of the marathon.
It's one mile from here.
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A hollow tree stump about a mile from here.
This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile. Radius.
Oh, nigh on 100 mile.
I got enough on them to use a mile of rope.
And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down stone by stone, excavated a mile around.
Do you charge for the first mile?
Some old family with a tree a mile long.
Follow the tramlines close on a mile and then turn right at the church.
The policeman's trousers were found a mile away.
Go to the sheriff's office, a quarter mile down the road.
They must be a mile away by now.
I got load of thousand-pound flour. I got to get over to 40-Mile Creek.
These star-spangled heroics of yours will blow it a mile high.
Half a mile away. At the end of a telescope.
And so, with the flames of war crackling along a two-thousand mile front, troops bitterly needed to defend Russia played parade for the Czar.
Oh, nigh on a hundred mile.
Whenever I get more than three or four families within a hundred mile of me, I begin to feel kind of crowded.
I'd walk a mile for a calomel. - You mean chocolate calomel.
Adams, I've got to hold this party together in this state. These star-spangled heroics of yours will blow it a mile high.
Here's to the last mile.
He'd killed 'em both and raised a big cloud of dust a mile and a half the other side of them.
I don't have to run a mile to get my leg up.
This whole area is within a radius of approximately three-quarters of a mile.
Well, a miss is as good as a mile.
Next time you'll hear me a mile away.
We did the last mile in exactly one minute and 12 seconds. Begging your pardon, sir.
Be kind of lonesome going down that last mile.
When you keep a horse in the barn on handicap day, when he runs the mile in 1:36, you are a. you are a criminal.
He has done the mile in 1:36 in his workouts.
The other side of the mainland, then about half mile offshore.
Looks like about a mile.
News and current affairs
The second crisis was immediately preceded by the accident at the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in March 1979, which reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement.
Moreover, China abruptly shortened the length of its border with India by rescinding its recognition of the 1,597-kilometer (992-mile) line separating Indian Kashmir from Chinese-held Kashmir.
Rather than pulling their units back across the canal to chase the raiding Israelis, the Egyptian commanders believed that their forces could capture all of them by converging toward one another, thus closing the two-mile gap that Sharon had exploited.
By following through on plans to build a 2,000-mile wall across its southern border.
Under NAFTA, US firms are flocking across the 2,000-mile Mexican border in order to set up operations in Mexico to benefit from lower wage levels, and hence lower production costs.
All of these states claim the 200-mile exclusive economic zones granted under UNCLOS.
The US argues that UNCLOS grants foreign ships and planes free access beyond a 12-mile territorial limit, while China claims that military flights cannot cross its 200-mile economic zone without its permission.
Manhattan's density is approximately 67,000 people per square mile, or more than 800 times that of the US as a whole and roughly 30 times that of Los Angeles.
Today, foreign policy is like being on the open seas, with no rules beyond countries' 200-mile maritime borders, and no land in sight.
TOKYO - China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China's 200-mile-wide territorial waters in the South China Sea.
On its descent from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten-mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.
The last six months have witnessed a proliferation of incidents along the 2,520-mile (4,057-kilometer) Sino-Indian frontier.
In such cases, America can step in and, by using both carrot and stick, make both sides go the extra mile.
An estimated 30,000 migrants are now crossing the Serbian border into Hungary every month, spurring the country's right-wing government to launch the construction of a 110-mile fence to keep them out.
And yet another documented more than 30,000 mishaps at US nuclear-power plants alone, many with the potential to have caused serious meltdowns, between the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and 2009.
A wind turbine requires 50 tons of steel and half a square mile of ground space.
In 1989, when the Iraq-Iran war sent shivers among oil-consuming nations, Brazil began to explore for energy both within and beyond its 200-nautical-mile protected zone.
Voters normally spot political Pinocchios and the lengthening of politicians' noses a mile off.
One by one, in single-file, hand in hand, they began to march toward Wenceslas Square, more than a mile and a half away, following a rickety horse-drawn cart bedecked with the wings of angels.