mile
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
These days, Ramirez and his workers drive about a mile away to a restaurant for their lunch break to escape the smell and flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Scottish athletics medal hopes include new mile world record holder Josh Kerr and defending 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan, while Glasgow 2026 chief executive Phil Batty said focus should be on younger athletes.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Josh Kerr, fresh from breaking the 27-year-old mile world record in London, will be a favourite to top the podium.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But as others improved on his time, the mile record eventually settled at a kind of equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Let’s just go. I’m thinking we run to the nature trail, do two laps around plus an extra mile out and back, then run back home. That’s eight miles. OK?”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
![]()
Residents said the smoke had caused a "fogginess" and "acrid smell" stretching for several miles between Torfaen and Pontypool.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Robotaxis are a key area of interest for Tesla investors, and the company offered up a number of updated statistics on Wednesday, including that it has logged more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised robotaxi trips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
One woman waited for four hours, only to come out of the theater with her voice and legs shaking; another said she drove 100 miles for the experience.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
This has included sending congestion alerts to visitors’ mobile phones and encouraging visitors to venture outside the valley, as it represents only a fraction of its almost 1,200 square miles of parkland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the middle of the afternoon we came to Rainy Pass Lodge, having covered seventy-four miles from Finger Lake, two hundred and nineteen miles since we left Anchorage.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
![]()