miles
Example Sentences
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Before they had kids, McBride and his wife biked 6,500 miles — McBride using a special, hand-cranked cycle — from Portland, Ore., to the southern tip of Argentina.
From Los Angeles Times
McBride was seated at the kitchen table of his custom-built home, two miles above the Columbia River in rural Washington state.
From Los Angeles Times
Traveling from there to the U.S.-California border is a journey of about 2,000 miles.
From Los Angeles Times
Cheraw, a town of 5,000 about 75 miles southeast of Charlotte, N.C., has seen plenty of economic upheaval in recent decades.
Instead of flying straight to Mars, the spacecraft are currently looping around a point in space about a million miles from Earth known as Lagrange point 2.
From Science Daily
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