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Example sentences for "many miles"

  • Cedar' is the name which has been applied by various authors to several different islands, many miles apart, in this portion of the river.

  • My steady work brought on a bad headache, but I rose early, took a walk of many miles, and it has gone.

  • At every county town a long cavalcade of the principal gentlemen, from a circle of many miles, escorted the mayor to the market cross.

  • The country, many miles round, was swept bare by these detachments, and a considerable quantity of cattle and fodder was collected within the walls.

  • Upon the heights behind our camp, a plateau of many miles in extent, with an almost imperceptible inclination towards the south-east, received the rainfall, in addition to the subterranean drainage of the hills in the far distance.

  • This may be many miles distant, necessitating many hundred wells, which may comprise great superficial changes; hills that are bored through necessitate deep shafts, and valleys must be spanned by aqueducts of masonry.

  • Then he will come south; but he and Braid will be many miles in rear of us.

  • All that afternoon they followed in his tracks, and towards evening they heard a shot, high up in the mountains, many miles to the north.

  • Many miles up the valley, it was just possible to see a little village, which, Fernando assured them, was in Maziriland itself.

  • A sharp cut with the knife, a hand that trembled with excitement thrust through the opening, and Harry's fingers closed upon the precious relic he had come so many miles to gain.

  • Many miles of rock-bound coast are thus useless for the purpose of reproduction.

  • Oh, do not go," said Bokwewa, "for that village is many miles to the south.

  • They cooked him some hot food and other nice things, and when he smelt the meal, he could not refuse to eat, for he had been without food for such a long time, and had travelled so many miles.

  • To go around this hill would be many miles, so, leaving their horses at the foot, they began to climb its slippery side.

  • Each night, however, found them with as many miles in front of them as there were behind them.

  • We formed an opinion, however, respecting the mental capacity of the youth, for whose sake the poor girl had wandered so many miles; and I no longer wondered that she saw a difference between her lover and Fred.

  • Then he climbed a tree, and from the top looked off over the country for a space of many miles.

  • Deerfoot had ordered them to push on and not to rest until they reached the ridge many miles beyond, where he hoped to join them.

  • Colony was divided from colony by many miles of forest and backwood.

  • Below him the plain stretched for many miles, bare and desolate, though when the rains came by and by it would be clothed with verdure.

  • Their goal was a small town on the frontier, many miles away, where in the bazar they might obtain the articles necessary to their proper equipment as traders.

  • Many miles to the left he fancied he descried the white roofs of a village, but in front the road ran between almost bare plains.

  • As an evidence that this movement of faulting has not yet ceased we may cite the Inyo earthquake of 1872, when there was a sudden renewal of movement of ten to twenty-five feet along this fault for many miles.

  • We had scant time to spare just then; there were so many miles to go to the railway.

  • They were but just back from many miles in very wild country.

  • He had come on these last days ever so many miles, and carried a full load.

  • The way up, through forests of ancient mahogany and tangles of giant tree-fern, then up many miles of lava slopes, is one of the inspiring tours in the mountain world.

  • Ski boots are beginning to show signs of wear; I trust we shall have no giving out of ski or boots, since there are yet so many miles to go.

  • They must be in very much better condition than Shackleton's animals, and indeed there isn't a doubt they would go many miles yet if food allowed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many miles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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