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Example sentences for "quarter miles"

  • The distance covered was twenty-one and three-quarter miles.

  • The same day we reached the place where we had left a case of dogs' pemmican, and camped there, having done twenty-nine and three-quarter miles.

  • The following day we did twenty-four and three-quarter miles; temperature, -32.

  • To Abigoom, eight and a quarter miles, through a similar country up a valley in a NNW.

  • Moved to Shusgao, distance thirteen and three-quarter miles, direction still the same, or, to the north of the star Capella.

  • Proceeded to Kileeyazim, ten and a quarter miles, marched at 2 P.

  • After going nineteen and a quarter miles, we came to a snow beacon that had been erected at the beginning of April, and had stood for seven months; it was still quite good and solid.

  • We did the first six and a quarter miles in an hour.

  • It is interesting to observe that the deepest sounding, about five and three-quarter miles, in the South Pacific somewhat exceeds the height of the highest mountain.

  • Its total length is one and one-quarter miles, the maximum height from the foundation about one hundred and thirty feet and the total weight of masonry over one million tons.

  • After two more days our fortune changed, and a strong north-easterly wind brought "a beastly cold, windy day" and drove us back three and a quarter miles.

  • So we climbed the glacier on the slope and went up about one and a quarter miles, and saw the great Beardmore Glacier stretching to the south.

  • We then returned to Ocean Camp for the tents and the rest of the sledges, and pitched camp by the boats about one and a quarter miles off.

  • What with the ground rising steadily, the pressure of the wind and our lack of condition, two and a quarter hours of solid work realized only two and a quarter miles; so we decided to camp.

  • The wind kept up sixty miles per hour all the time, so that, after taking four hours to do four and three-quarter miles, we were all thoroughly exhausted.

  • Darkness was coming on when we sighted a bamboo pole, three and a quarter miles south of the Hut, and camped.

  • On a bearing of 18 degrees, at twenty-two miles, arrived at Lake Perigundi, a semicircular lake from three to four miles in length by one and three-quarter miles broad.

  • From the top of the hill there was water at a distance of one and a half to one and three-quarter miles.

  • From last camp we came over well-grassed, lightly wooded plains for five miles, then over flat country for four and three-quarter miles.

  • Afterwards we came out of the wooded country in one and a half miles, then came over plains for four and a quarter miles, then crossed a shallow watercourse and encamped.

  • Then, after coming over poor low ridges covered with triodia and wooded chiefly with tea trees for five and three-quarter miles, we reached at 2.

  • I have counted the whole revolutions during the day's travel and I find it to be a little over eleven and a quarter miles, twenty revolutions over.

  • We traveled a piece farther and at half past ten o'clock it was considered best to turn out the teams until it ceases raining, after traveling two and a quarter miles.

  • When within about three quarters of a mile from the river, we stopped to feed at twenty minutes to two, having traveled six and a quarter miles.

  • At ten and a quarter miles we reached a creek on the south about twelve yards wide and coming from an extensive prairie, which approached the borders of the river.

  • At twelve and a quarter miles, we encamped on the north side, near the head of Nodawa island, and opposite a smaller one in the middle of the river.

  • We went early in the morning, three and a quarter miles, and encamped on the south, in order to wait for the Ottoes.

  • We encamped at a place called "West Point on Blue River," after a march of nineteen and three-quarter miles.

  • We went to the Little Blue River, twenty-one and three-quarter miles.

  • We went on to Turkey Creek, twenty-one and three-quarter miles.

  • Its diameter is six and a quarter miles; that of the inner one is seven and a half miles.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarter 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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