7 sentences with 'miles'

Example sentences and phrases with the word miles and other words derived from it.

• « We began to resent the loss 50 miles upriver, where we anchored. »
• « By the standards of the time, a speed of 20 miles per hour was very fast, and the secret to the car's speed lay in its light weight: just over 230 kilograms. If the engine was removed, a man could lift it quite easily. »
• « It's like driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and suddenly slamming on the brakes. »
• « With the music blaring, Amy accelerated to 40 miles per hour. »
• « The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching 4,000 miles from its mouth in the Mediterranean to its source at Lake Victoria in Central Africa. »
• « For the most part, this was ancient Egypt: a strip of land 10 to 20 miles wide (and in some places only 1 or 2 miles wide) made up of incredibly fertile soil that depended on the Nile floods. »
• « These regions were close enough to each other (for example, it is approximately 800 miles from Greece to Mesopotamia, the furthest distance between any of the regions) for long-distance trade to be possible. »
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