mile

Example Sentences

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The Wanderstay is a mile on foot from the Houston fan zone and a short drive from the stadium hosting Houston's matches.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

After the collision, the safety system on Grossman’s Mercedes SUV turned off the vehicle, which came to a stop one-third of a mile down the road.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Bryggeriets is less than a mile from one of Sweden’s most notorious housing projects, Rosengård, where soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović grew up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The Fed reached the last mile and “got stuck,” said Carola Binder, a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

Out beyond the frontline trenches, no man’s land separating the opposing armies might be anywhere from a mile or more across to barely twenty-five yards wide.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman