miles

Example Sentences

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Five graves were located within three miles of Akron Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles west of Ecuador, a seafloor fault has been producing magnitude 6 earthquakes with striking regularity for at least 30 years.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Twelve miles down the coast is the little resort of Aberdyfi.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

"I'm not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, we're supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I'm not looking for that," he told Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier".

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

For six or seven miles the trail wound through the wreckage of downed trees and broken limbs.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen