MILE in a Sentence

Learn MILE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

282 example sentences for MILE, such as:

1. The island was three mile long.
2. In Hookerville, seven mile below.
3. Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
4. The town lies ten miles to the south of here.
5. Those last eight miles just pooped everybody.

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 Meanings and Examples of MILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mile
 n.  a unit of length used in navigation, equal to 1,760 yards or 1.6 kilometres
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  The little steam ferry-boat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
6  Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
7  A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
8  The island was three mile long.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
9  Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went 'bout two mile er more to whah dey warn't no houses.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
10  I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
11  In Hookerville, seven mile below.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
12  Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
13  Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
14  This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
15  It had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
16  I pushed on towards Flagstaff, a hundred miles to the west.
17  A road of a thousand miles begins with one step.
18  The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away.
19  She drove through Westport, and stopped a few miles beyond at a wayside inn.
20  The circuit of the city walls is three miles.
21  Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart.
22  A good cyclist can cover distances of over a hundred miles a day.
23  By my reckoning, this short cut will save us five miles.
24  The road runs straight as a die for fifty or so miles.
25  Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
26  Those last eight miles just pooped everybody.
27  We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
28  Walking four miles in an hour is pretty good going for me.
29  How the massive stones were brought here from hundreds of miles away is/remains a mystery.
30  The town lies ten miles to the south of here.