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Meaning miles meaning
What does miles mean?
Definitions in simple English
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What do people use miles to talk about?
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What words indicate that something is far from something else?far far away far off afar far afield far and wide a far cry from far apart far removed distant be distant a long distance in the distance some distance a good distance a ways way off a long way (off) a long ways away a fair way quite a ways nowhere near miles (away) yonder wide of clear off all over asunder at arm's length on the horizon the ends of the earth uttermost parts of the earth
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What words describe a place that is far away from where most people go?
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What words refer to not paying attention?
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How do I use miles in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The station is two miles away.
I live miles away from the nearest station.
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
It's only three miles to the village.
You can see for miles from the roof.
Another three miles is more than I can walk.
We were ten miles short of Boston.
Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
The train makes 20 miles an hour.
I rode fifty miles that day.
The island is about two miles off the coast.
The town is two miles away from the coast.
The city is fifty miles above London.
That town is two miles away.
It's only two miles to the village.
The village lies 20 miles north of this town.
The station is about three miles from here.
We didn't see a single house for five miles there.
When I have finished writing the letter, I will take you to the lake about two miles beyond the hill.
It is 5 miles from here to Tokyo.
It is two miles from here to the park.
It's eight miles from here to London.
There is a bridge two miles upstream.
It's about two miles.
Movie subtitles
The Yangtze was part of a vast waterway known as the Grand Canal that linked Hangzhou with Beijing 1,000 miles to the north.
London's old, patched-up city walls extended a paltry three miles.
By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
I walk miles every day, I'm that busy.
He's miles away, and I don't know if.
Ten miles away. I'm not gonna leave them here, where someone could find them.
Was there a reason you buried the ledgers ten miles away?
Well, a few miles.
Anne Arundel county sheriff's department's reporting a downed aircraft burning two miles outside of Crofton.
That estate is miles away.
If there's any food within 25 miles, he'll be the one to get it.
Those big fellas just make a lot of noise and land about five miles behind the line.
About two miles.
She couldn't march many miles in those.
Have you met Miles?
Miles of docks wait day and night for strange cargo - and stranger men.
We proceeded 300 miles inland, where I shot a polar bear.
I'll skirmish around with the Pawnees for a few miles.
Bascom, you tell them pilgrims of yours, there's 500 miles of desert ahead of us and them that don't like what's comin' to them, now's the time for 'em to turn back.
There's a trail I've followed for over 3,000 miles now, and I'm headin' back to pick it up again and follow it to the end.
Call up every police station within 50 miles.
It's about 1 oo miles from our town.
Only 10 miles.
It seems as though we've come miles.
It's only 35 miles from New York, and it's real rural country.
I come 6,000 miles and all I'm offered is a cup of tea.
I've got reports for ten miles around. Not a sign of anything.
YOU'RE CHEATING! Miles: DON'T BE A HATER.
THIS IS MY ASSOCIATE, MILES.
WHAT, DID MILES TELL YOU THAT SOMETHING'S GOING ON?
I HAVETO DO THIS. IF YOU THINK I'M LETTING YOU GET NEAR MILES' MONEY, YOU ARE CRAZY.
I'M NOT LETTING YOU SAY ANYTHING TO MILES, ROSS.
Okay. Miles: POSITIVE SIGNS OF A SURGE.
A COUPLE OF MILES AWAY IN SOME CRAPPY MOTEL, IRONING OUT ALL THE DETAILS.
SO THAT YOU CAN SHAKE DOWN THIS MILLIONAIRE KID MILES. BUT FAIR IS FAIR, ROSS. WE CAME UP WITH A WAY TO GET TO HIM FIRST.
NOTHING FROM SAM OR MILES. I'VE LEFT ROSS 15 MESSAGES, MAYBE AS MANY TEXTS.
WE'RE NOT TRYING TO STEAL ANYTHING FROM MILES!
THE TRANSFER FOR MILES DID GO THROUGH. YOU'RE RIGHT.
Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Department is reporting a downed aircraft burning 2 miles outside of Crofton.
News and current affairs
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans' levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
I recently visited a remote Dong village in the mountains of Quizho, one of China's poorest provinces, miles away from the nearest paved road; yet it had electricity, and with electricity had come not just television, but the internet.
Deflecting an asteroid from its orbit when it is still hundreds of millions of miles from Earth is a feasible undertaking.
The Volt's battery will be a cutting-edge, high-performance lithium-ion battery, which promises a range of 40 miles per charge and a six-hour recharge time drawing from a normal wall socket.
Based on typical driving patterns, the Volt will get so many miles on the battery that it will achieve around 230 miles per gallon of gasoline!
A thousand miles to the west of Georgia is Moldova (population 3.5 million), which lies between Romania and Ukraine.
In response to China's capability to project power many hundreds of miles from its borders, the US (as I have suggested for the last 25 years) should develop a long-range bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated defenses and delivering great force.
As US security interests shift to the Pacific, Americans now rely on increasingly vulnerable forward land bases and carrier fleets with tactical aircraft that have a combat radius of 300-500 miles (482-805 kilometers).
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, triggering a seismic shift that moved the borders of the old Federal Republic and of Western Europe as a whole, hundreds of miles to the east.
Second, African villagers lack access to cars or trucks, so they have to walk several miles to reach a clinic.
Most people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across the countryside, or when massive, industrial wind farms extend for miles.
Xinjiang covers nearly 650,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers), but it is home to only 21 million people, many of whom are members of nomadic tribes.
Put simply, every new labor-force entrant would be equipped with a lifelong individual account, thereby accumulating points in the same way airline travelers accumulate miles.
David Miles of the Bank of England predicts three more financial crises in the coming two decades.
As the system was completed, one could cross the country and reach its commercial hubs on high-speed expressways at 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour.
Also tellingly, the accused member of the hated religious minority was jailed for life and condemned to a method of punishment - solitary confinement on an island 3,000 miles away - that was invented just for him after his conviction.
Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away.
Over the last two years, I have traveled 354,200 miles, visited a total of 62 countries, and conducted 246 one-on-one meetings with heads of state and other national leaders.
CAMBRIDGE: Seven hundred miles off Florida's coast lies one of the most impoverished places on earth.
I have also offered to take him to his village near Chakwal, a few miles south of Islamabad, where he was born.
Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.
The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin-covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.
In 1941, the powerful Japanese navy used many resources to create damage thousands of miles away.
The war ended with Israeli forces 70 miles from Cairo, and less than 20 miles from Damascus, their success obscured by the shock of the surprise attack, emotional over-reactions, and the difficulty of seeing clearly through the fog of war.
Welcoming crowds have lined streets and filled train stations in German cities, offering drinks, food, and clothing to the exhausted refugees, many of whom have walked hundreds of miles and risked their lives to get to safety.
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