miles

Example Sentences

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Five graves were located within three miles of Akron Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles west of Ecuador, a seafloor fault has been producing magnitude 6 earthquakes with striking regularity for at least 30 years.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Twelve miles down the coast is the little resort of Aberdyfi.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Some came within 150 miles of the Japanese city of Sasebo, home to a core U.S. naval base, according to ship-tracking data provided by geospatial analysis firm ingeniSPACE and verified by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

“Oh my gosh. So much. But I ran ten miles today, and it felt good. You’ve kept up with your training?”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison