miles
Example Sentences
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The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live.
From BBC
“I think people were surprised to find out they had a ballistic missile that could go 3,000 miles,” he said.
From Barron's
Looking back, he said: “The first convenience of the move from California to New York was, well, you could close the door on the period, just by moving three thousand miles. You can’t take it all with you in your station wagon.”
NASA’s Artemis II fly-by mission will light up the Florida sky at launch, and observers can watch from miles away.
In 1990, when gasoline prices jumped in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, helping to precipitate a recession, the average light vehicle got 18.8 miles to the gallon.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
