miles
Example Sentences
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Despite more than 15 hours of searching across roughly 84 square nautical miles, crews were unable to locate Fox, and the active search was suspended later that day, according to police.
From Los Angeles Times
Divers including Heredia and Fox’s husband, Jean-François Vanreusel, continued scouring the rocky coastline until Fox’s remains werefound by law enforcement on Dec. 27 several miles north of Lovers Point.
From Los Angeles Times
“She developed a deeply intimate relationship with the Pacific Ocean not by studying it or by looking at it, but by getting into it — again and again and again, on choppy days and gloriously calm days, logging what I can only guess are thousands of miles.”
From Los Angeles Times
Chinese coast-guard ships joined Russian border-guard ships last summer in patrols about 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island in the U.S.
Chinese coast-guard ships joined Russian border-guard ships last summer in patrols about 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island in the U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
