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Example sentences for "miles long"

  • The first is near the north-eastern corner of the State, from Pierpont, through Monroe and Salem townships to the mouth of Conneant creek, 16 miles long.

  • They are 6 or 8 miles long, abounding with fish, and are surrounded with an excellent farming country.

  • A fairly straight line, 700 miles long, drawn westward from Sydney, would strike Broken Hill, just as a somewhat shorter one drawn west from Boston would strike Buffalo.

  • It is 363 miles long, having the greatest extent of any canal in the world.

  • Georgia, an island 96 miles long and 10 broad, in the latitude of Yorkshire, "in the very height of summer, is in a manner wholly covered with frozen snow.

  • It is 15 miles long, and in one part 7 broad and descends to the sea-coast.

  • It is 15 miles long, and in one part 7 broad, and descends to the sea-coast.

  • Connection was made by boat to Gainesville, within 2 miles of which a spur of the Mobile and Ohio, 21 miles long, had been completed.

  • But after a pause, during which several hundred thousand new troops were brought in, the Huns renewed the offensive, delivering an attack against the French near Montdidier on a front about 15 miles long.

  • On March 21 the greatest German offensive of the war actually began on a front 50 miles long, running west and southwest of Cambrai.

  • Five miles further it passes through the valley of Lalabeg 1-1/2 miles wide by 6 miles long, and then after rising for four miles it reaches the top of the Pass, which from both sides offers very strong strategical positions.

  • Contains many rivers; largest, Essequibo, 600 miles long, noted for magnificent cataracts.

  • This brings us back to sea level again, where we meet the waters of the Pacific, and steam out upon it through a channel 500 feet wide and 8 miles long.

  • The Baltimore line, 70 miles long, from Millway, Pa.

  • The Pennsylvania line, 280 miles long, from Colegrove, Pa.

  • The Buffalo line, 70 miles long, from Four Mile, Cattaraugus County, N.

  • The Cleveland line, 100 miles long, from Hilliards, Pa.

  • The line was more than sixty miles long, but the struggle was concentrated on certain points and fighting elsewhere was not important.

  • It is 28 miles long, and of sufficient depth for the navigation of large vessels.

  • DEV'ERON, a river of Scotland belonging to Aberdeenshire and Banffshire, 60 miles long.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute reality; after giving; historical monuments; inner bark; married first; middle height; miles above; miles apart; miles away; miles broad; miles distant; miles from its mouth; miles from the sun; miles high; miles north; miles northeast; miles per; miles south; miles southwest; miles wide; moonlight night; noble brother; part chorus; serve them; successful conclusion; wondering what