Sentence examples for upon miles from inspiring English sources

Below me, the miles upon miles of strip-mining devastation broke my heart.

As we move further from Montreal, the pylons, quarries and suburbs give way to miles upon miles of forest.

These guys run miles upon miles carrying 40-pound sacks and two quarts of water and flannel and rifles.

Climbing onto a roof, we looked southward upon miles and miles of open space receding to gray bluffs that rose, heat-distorted, just within the eye's outermost reach.

The city's miles upon miles of petrol-choked roads determine its geography.I think that hell might even be more interesting than Houston.

The sight of miles upon miles of factories outside the industrial capital of Monterrey attracts far less attention than the image of nine bodies hanging from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Getting there meant traversing this fragmented archipelago by road, which in turn meant navigating mile-upon-mile of subterranean tunnels.

Behind him stretches mile upon mile of grey Atlantic.

You travel through arable land for miles, then have mile upon mile of stark concrete.

For inside vast plastic greenhouses grow mile upon mile of roses.

Anyone who travels round England at present sees mile upon mile of "brownfield" land awaiting development.