miles

[mahylz] / maɪlz /

ADJECTIVE

far

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deep distant long

STRONG

bit piece remote ways

WEAK

afar end of rainbow far piece far-flung far-off far-removed faraway good ways middle of nowhere out-of-the-way outlying removed stone's throw

Example Sentences

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A by-election in Greater Manchester might seem somewhat distant from Scotland - several hundred miles away at best, across a border.

From BBC

Attention has turned to the relatively untapped Stabroek Block, 120 miles off the coast of Guyana.

From Barron's

A fortnight after searches began, the youngsters' bodies were found in a ditch about 10 miles away, near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

From BBC

After closing Cadence, they moved back west and settled in New Glarus, Wis., a village about 30 miles from Madison.

From The Wall Street Journal

After often years at sea, adult Atlantic salmon swim thousands of miles to return to the chalk streams where they were born.

From BBC