Sentence examples for thing for miles from inspiring English sources

The most expensive thing for miles is the million-dollar view of the Empire State Building looming across the water.

On a blustery winter afternoon the yellow windows of the Bradford East constituency office of David Ward MP are the brightest thing for miles.

They look like the flags of long-buried pirate ships, standing out from the slope of the mountain, the only man-made thing for miles around, but they behave rather like Echinopsis_ _cacti.

The beer is the only warm thing for miles.

Several of our Meals On Wheels programs struggle to deliver and provide meals in a desolate landscape where the only thing for miles is a lone post office that may be closing shortly.

Our instructor, a guy named Jeff, whom I assumed to be in his 40s, would lead us down a huge hill to this field in the middle of nowhere, where the only thing visible for miles was the gazebo we stood inside and the targets we fired at.

It would have wiped out every living thing for 300 miles around, but on the site of that old catastrophe, there was now a beautiful little town with a chateau constructed from impactite, or rock that had been altered by the impact.

Ms. Bills said: "There were times when I thought the best thing would be for Miles to pass.

British Airways likes to see its Executive Club as a true loyalty programme rather than just an upmarket trading-stamp scheme.It is one thing for frequent-flyer miles to be devalued, but what is the risk they might become worthless?

When that option proved to be politically untenable (a nuclear warhead would, among other things, vent fatal radiation for miles), the Air Force came up with a new bombing plan, using advanced guidance systems to deliver a series of large bunker-busters — conventional bombs filled with high explosives — on the same target, in swift succession.

Nicknamed the "Luke Skywalker" binoculars when they were first being developed, these things can not only see for miles but also work in tandem with an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap worn by the soldiers to improve enemy detection.