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
• The filly trotted the mile in 1:51.2 in winning for the fifth time in eight starts this year.
  — Tom Canavan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• One windbreaker was blown more than 60 miles away in the storm.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2023
• The post states first responders had to hike over a mile to locate the man.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 July 2022
• 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
• These spots are scenic and quiet, and a handful can be found within the first mile of the road.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
• Mileage is reimbursed roundtrip at a rate of forty cents a mile.
  — Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2022
• Then venture onto 24 miles of trails to check out the views, or spend the day fishing.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 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
• Rivas lived in the Melrose section of the Bronx, about 3 miles from where he was killed, officials said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
• That translates into significant energy savings for the bats, Hurme says, which can migrate nearly 1000 miles.
  — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025