Sentences with 'mile'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mile and other words derived from it.
• « A European soldier armed with a modern rifle could shoot accurately up to almost half a mile away in any weather, while the inhabitants of Africa and Asia were armed with older firearms or handguns. »
• « The Nazi extermination camps, however, were designed for one purpose: to kill people. There were only six of them in total, and most were very small - often around a quarter of a square mile in size. All were located in occupied Poland, near railway lines and hidden in forests far from the main population centres. »
• « Even short waterways, such as the two-and-a-half mile canal that circled the rapids of the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, proved to be a breakthrough, in this case opening up a river route from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. »