Sentence examples for five miles long from inspiring English sources

The Pilgrim site runs north all the way to the Long Island Expressway, so that Mr. Wolkoff's property will eventually be five miles long.

It looked five miles long".

A single cable could be more than five miles long.

It is about five miles long and one mile wide.

The affected area was "a couple miles wide and about five miles long," he said.

Even the island's V.I.P. visitor list seems outsized for a spit of land just five miles long.

The 1896 Olympic marathon was just less than twenty-five milonglong, and was won by a Greek named Spyridon Louis.

On the Nimrod expedition, Shackleton discovered one of the few passable routes: a glacier-covered valley, twenty-five miles wide and a hundred and twenty-five miles long, that runs between the mountains like a frozen causeway.

In our current age of statistical enthusiasms, you'll find it asserted that the average pencil contains a line thirty-five milonglorg, of of about 45,000 scrawled words.

Leading up to the temples is the celebrated Cryptomeria Avenue, twenty-five milonglong, with these wonderful trees planted closely together on both sides.

The Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci (15521610) mentioned the Great Wall once in his diary, noting the existence of "a tremendous wall four hundred and five miles long" that formed part of the northern defences of the Ming Empire.