English example sentences with "mile"

Learn how to use mile in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

The bridge is one mile above.

The school stands about one mile off.

I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.

It is no more than half a mile to the sea.

It is no more than a mile to the sea.

It is no more than a mile to the station.

A miss is as good as a mile.

My house is only a mile from here.

The island lies a mile off the coast.

The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.

The bridge is approximately a mile long.

The shopping center is a mile further down the road.

This river is one mile across.

Go along this street for a mile.

It is about 1 mile from here to the station.

You must be a good athlete to have run a mile in such a short time.

I walked three-fourths of a mile.

I had hardly walked a mile when it began to thunder.

I had not gone a mile when it began to rain.

A mile is equal to about 1600 meters.

I raced him a mile.

I walked about a mile.

The island is nearly a mile across.

He is capable of running a mile in four minutes.

He cannot swim a mile.

He can swim a mile.

You ought to walk a mile in his shoes before you criticize him.

The post office is half a mile away.

The shopping center is one mile ahead.

I can spot a bleached blonde from a mile away.

There's a grueling uphill stretch of road at mile 23 of the marathon.

It's one mile from here.

Who was the first person to break the four-minute mile?

In China, talented people are often described as "ten thousand mile horses".

Imogen of the Internet can type over 110 words per minute, but runs a 20-minute mile. The rest of her family has the opposite problem.

That hotel really goes the extra mile to make sure their guests feel at home.

The racecourse was set in a valley, about a mile from the town centre.

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.

Tom talks a mile a minute.

I ran for a mile.

I walked about 1 mile.

A mile is about 1,600 meters.

Go the extra mile; it's not crowded.

He can't swim a mile.

Tom runs a 9-minute mile.

Mary runs the mile in 7 minutes.

If you give him an inch, he'll take a mile.

Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

Give Tom an inch and he'll take a mile.

Let's go the extra mile.

Before you criticize a man, you should always walk a mile in his shoes.

You can't really understand another person until you walk a mile in their shoes.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.

There are 640 acres in a square mile.

I live about a mile from here.

He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame Fox and a blind Cat, walking together like two good friends. The lame Fox leaned on the Cat, and the blind Cat let the Fox lead him along.

When the striker completed a hat-trick, the crowd cheered so loudly they could be heard half a mile away.

Anyone taller than a mile must leave the court immediately.

Troll Wall is the tallest European vertical rock wall. It rises a mile from the ground, of which 3,300 feet is a vertical cliff.

The last mile is the longest.

The concrete mixing plant is just a mile from the worksite.

The river is almost a mile wide at this point.

It's about a quarter mile from here.

The biker was bombarded by clouds of gnats along every mile of the bike trail.

You can tell a mile away.

Tom's squirrel can smell hazelnuts from a mile away.

In Denver, Colorado, where the altitude is around 5,200 feet (just about 1 mile above sea level), reduced air pressure causes water to boil 4 to 5 degrees C below the standard 100 degrees C.

This submarine can dive more than a mile deep.

Layla drove about a mile more.

Layla's grandparents lived just a mile away.

Saturn's ring system is about 175,000 miles (280,000 km) across, yet only about half a mile (1 km) thick.

The Grand Canyon is one mile deep and about 100 miles long.

Sami should take the mile instead of the inch.

Take the mile instead of the inch.

The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.

Tom and Mary live just a mile away.

Tom lives just a mile away.

Sami has a rapsheet a mile long.

Sami is a Canadian with a rapsheet a mile long.

Sami was about a mile away.

I'm not sure how many facelifts there are per square mile, but we can factor that into the business plan.

They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt.

A nautical mile measures distance and a knot measures speed.

A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude.

A nautical mile is equal to 1.1508 statute miles.

A knot is one nautical mile per hour.

Just before sunset, Mary parked at the trailhead and walked in half a mile. She took a picture of a rabbit and one of the mountain. She went home and posted on social media that she'd been hiking all day.

In half a mile, turn left on Main Street.

Tom's knees were slightly sore from walking mile after mile.

Tom's knees were slightly sore from walking mile after mile.

About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer.

We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.

How many taco shops are there in one square mile here?

Sami was panting as though he had run a mile.

Sami can smell weed from a mile away.

Sami can spot a douchebag from a mile.

Mussels contributed to a valve problem in the 1990s at the Nine Mile Nuclear Power plant in Lake Ontario.

A guest for a while, sees for a mile.

Give someone an inch, and they will take a mile.

He stinks a mile off.

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