Word Finder - miles

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The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.

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Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.

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Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

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The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

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Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).

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(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.

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Any similarly large distance.

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The shot missed by a mile.

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A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)

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The runners competed in the mile.

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One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

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five miles over the speed limit

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Much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)

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Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.

He was working on the ranch, fifteen miles away.

He says it's only a few miles away and we'll be right back.

Now he's three thousand miles away.

It came from Boston, a few hundred miles away; sort of like the tip you just made.

We can't run sixty miles in an hour, so we make cars.

How many miles had they traveled today?

It's just two miles an hour.

Not that she was likely to see him again - especially out here in the desert, hundreds of miles from their little Texas ranch.

He could be 500 miles away.

Though in the new reign he was free to return to the capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing.

I've travelled many miles since my last and I'm becoming impatient for company.

That must be three hundred and fifty miles from here!

The people for miles around were roused as though a fire were raging.

I spent the autumn months with my family at our summer cottage, on a mountain about fourteen miles from Tuscumbia.

I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live.

Childhood excursions had taught her that the country was rough, but was she up to ten miles of walking?

They were several miles down the road before either of them spoke.

It seemed unlikely that he would travel so many miles to get her, and then give up.

She plodded on, willing herself to take each step, not thinking of the miles to go, but merely getting through one more painful step.

There were lots of businesses and folks came out of the hollows from miles around to shop.

Peabody was two hundred and thirty miles and we arrived at our destination a little after eleven on Friday night, after nearly six hours of steady traffic.

We're two hundred miles away.

If he can get us better and timelier information and direct us to the best place to call in our tips, we're miles ahead.

We did so although the driving was downright dangerous for the first fifty miles.

We splurged for a motel room in Peabody, a few miles from the LeBlanc's home.

His house was situated seven miles from the office and about the same distance from Betsy and me.

Days without refreshing little company to pass the dreary miles.

That's eighty or ninety miles.

I pass farm country, for miles and miles as I travel in my home on wheels.

For two hundred years the mountain has attracted visitors from miles away.

Betsy exclaimed as we caught our breath, standing atop the highest point for thirty miles around.

There is a lovely beach that stretches miles along the blue Atlantic.

After all, you're miles away in Keene, New Hampshire.

I drove the few miles to Howie's home feeling as guilty as a cheating husband for leaving Betsy alone and uninformed.

If our boy made his getaway at more than five or ten miles an hour, you can bet your ass he was on one of these babies.

She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.

Howie was three thousand miles away; who would come to call at this hour of the night?

I thanked him and drove the last few miles to my house, more sedately than earlier.

Going three thousand miles away sounds like a good idea for you folks, even if it's only for a couple of days.

We'd go twenty, thirty miles away to do our business, moving to different towns.

Wherever he is, it's more than a thousand miles from here.

Our motel was at least five or six miles up the coast highway through town.

It's only two or three miles.

We just received word of a horrific accident about ten miles up the road.

He must have been flying a hundred miles an hour to make that mess.

The authorities secured the van's mileage from the previous owner and carefully attempted to construct miles driven to pin-point Grasso's hideout.

Soup was out of the question; it might as well have been a million miles away in the kitchen.

Everyone within a hundred miles felt what you did.

This area is ten square miles, though.

Miles away, Sofia couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong with Damian.