Sentence examples for miles in width from inspiring English sources

It is a narrow bay, ranging from one to six miles in width.

The features create internal waves which can grow up to 100 metres in height and span hundreds of miles in width.

A single population of migrants may be scattered over a vast territory so as to form a broad front hundreds of miles in width.

In this section, the river flows slowly through the lowest level of the plains and increases to about five miles in width.

Now its vast swarms, which can measure tens of miles in width, frequently make commercial fishing impossible and have sometimes closed tourist beaches lining the Mediterranean for days at a time.

"The path of the storm is 20 miles long and estimated two miles in width," said Gov. Mary Fallin, who described the tornado as one of the state's most horrific disasters.

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was almost a mile in width.

Dore Gold, an adviser to the prime minister, said the zones could be more than half a mile in width and include fences and mobile patrols.

For four miles in length, and nearly a half mile in width, the ground is strewn with … hats, caps, clothing, canteens, knapsacks, shells, and shot.

To the west the river again narrows to about a mile in width, and the current is fast at Green Island Rapids, about 12 miles (20 km) east of Fort Simpson.

By one unofficial count, 68 houses of worship have taken root in this small community, which is a bit over a mile in width and in length and has a population of about 16,000.