mile
Example Sentences
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The Chinese position sits 6 miles from the biggest U.S. military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier.
Middletown, a quiet borough of about 9,500 people, sits on the Susquehanna River roughly 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital.
By the time WWI ended, airports and airstrips dotted the L.A. area — by some accounts, 53 existed within 10 miles of City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times
Since January its territorial gains total nearly 1,900 square miles.
After a field is picked clean, workers have to find their next job, sometimes hundreds of miles away or more.
From Los Angeles Times
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