Sentence examples for miles larger from inspiring English sources
Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake (5,715 feet), and at 395 by 50 miles, larger than Lake Erie.
Its 33d edition is in Bastar, a remote tribal region in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, about 15,000 square miles — larger than Belgium.
The Okanogan complex of wildfires was measured at 355 square miles on Saturday, about 100 miles larger than on Friday, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.
The continent is nearly five and a half million square miles — larger than Europe — and it doubles in size in winter, when its coastal waters freeze over.
Detroit is 138.7 square miles, larger than Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan combined, but the vast majority of the new money that has poured into the city has pooled in the 7.2 square miles of downtown.
Left unanswered in the current debate is the critical question of how thousands of additional American troops might actually bring long-term stability to Afghanistan — a country 80,000 square miles larger than Iraq yet with security forces just one-fourth the size of Iraq's.
Other cities and states have tried variations on "My Houston," but this subtropical metropolis of 2.2 million people, the nation's most sprawling city, spread over 630 square miles — large enough to encompass Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit — has a special burden: a reputation for banality, even ugliness.
The physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer is director general of the European Council for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Switzerland, where he oversees efforts to discover the subatomic underpinnings of the universe using the 17-mile Large Hadron Collider.
As the bishop of Santarém for more than 25 years, Bishop Ryan administered the largest diocese in the world, a harsh jungle domain that, at more than 125,000 square miles, was larger than many European countries.
An estimated 150,000 penguins of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay have been killed since the iceberg measuring 1,120 square miles - larger than Luxemberg - forced them to trek 70 miles for food.
The ice-free territory alone — some hundred and seventy thousand square miles — is larger than Germany.
