Sentence examples for as a miles from inspiring English sources

He means his tally of air miles, of course, or rather his goal as a miles collector: ten million.

The island is 33 miles long, but rarely as much as a mile wide.

They may be a few blocks or as much as a mile apart.

(Some of yesterday's tornadoes are thought to have been as wide as a mile).

He has never run a race as short as a mile.

Locals tell of mountains as much as a mile out of place.

A wall label notes that a skilled marksman could pick off a man as far as a mile away.

He estimates the devastated area as a mile and a half long and half a mile wide.

In the end, he wasn't even close in either innings – but a miss is as good as a mile, as I know well.

A mile travelled by a large truck full of groceries is not the same as a mile travelled by a sport-utility vehicle carrying a bag of salad.

A miss is as good as a mile, after all: and a near miss worst of all.