miles

Example Sentences

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Its goal is to anchor an array of units 4.5 miles offshore, at a cost of $500 million to $1 billion, to deliver 60 million gallons of water per day.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

It had been purchased six days earlier at Smokin’ Barrel Guns and Ammo in Raleigh, North Carolina, more than 600 miles away.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

In one sense that might not be the worst thing, since this Belmont will be the third straight contested over 1¼ miles at Saratoga instead of the traditional 1½ miles at Belmont Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

JetBlue narrowed its second-quarter available seat miles growth guidance to 2% to 4%, from a previous forecast of 1.5% to 4.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

After a long night tossing on scratchy straw bedding, the group disembarked a few hundred miles away at Newark, New York.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock