Sentence examples for a milepost that from inspiring English sources

In front of the dome, someone has planted the standard jokey symbol of isolation, a milepost that shows Kangerlussuaq, the nearest town, to be nine hundred kilometres away.

A new documentary captures a cultural milepost that sprung up at the intersection of conservatism and dance parties.

For there is an abundance of signs this fall that Russia has reached -- at long last -- a crucial milepost that East Europeans attained in the mid-1990's: the status of a growing, politically stable and hopeful nation.

One milepost that Sally didn't mention is this: It is the week of your thirtieth birthday, and instead of sitting in a wheelchair, you are hitchiking along Virginia Beach Boulevard after selling your car.

"That was a milepost of consciousness.

Evans was a key figure on Davis's Kind of Blue (1959), a milepost of jazz history and perhaps the finest recorded example of modal jazz, a style that eschews complex chords in favour of free melody.

From Galax it's about two hours to Blowing Rock, N.C., a sophisticated tourist town at Milepost 292 that's built around a jutting rock atop a cliff where the wind blows hard and often.

A winning record is just a milepost along the way.

The verdicts were a milepost in a case whose savagery stunned many Indians.

The scene was intended as a milepost in Walt's moral decay.

To Tom Donnelly, Mr. Principi's decision was "a milepost on a long and painful journey".