How to use "miles" in a sentence

It was night-time and we were 200 miles on the coast of Japan when suddenly Ned Land, the harpooner, cried out.

"Yes, about twenty miles away

"You walk from here to Brow Top, up over the moors road? Every evening? That's a dangerous road, and it must be more than three miles."

I need to wait for a few days until they think I'm miles from the city

The plan was to get to Flagstaff, but it is too many miles away

But anyway, why think about it? Just drive; get a few more miles from the town, and from her.

Around the old but impressive school, there are green gardens and grounds that continue for miles, and at the windows of the building there are the thirty faces of serious young men, who watch them strangely.

We're miles up above one of the loudest cities in the world

'Only two more miles,' said Maxim at last

People came from miles around

The sea had carried her forty miles up the coast

She was on the rocks about two miles from the shore

London was many miles away

The hours passed and the miles went by, Favell's car always behind us.

Perhaps he had wandered away from the wrecked bus and had been found miles from the scene of the accident, without identification, unable to tell anyone who he was or where he came from

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

"Eat takeout food at two hundred miles an hour in the Batmobile, and no matter how messy it gets - just hose off later."

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

"Somehow, for some reason, they drove the bus more than four miles off the main highway, four miles off and a hell of a long way up, right up to the damn clouds

In this residential neighborhood, the speed limit was twenty-five miles an hour

When Elliot rounded the corner two blocks later, he braked from sixty miles an hour to make the turn

"Let's ride out this way for a few miles and talk

Nevada has thousands of square miles of remote unpopulated land

The Cessna Turbo Skylane RG knifed through the darkness, two miles above the Nevada desert, with the low clouds under it, wings plated silver by moonlight.

It seemed more like a hundred miles

"It has to be within a few miles of where Jaborski intended to go with the scouts."

They hadn't seen a house or other structure for two miles

They hadn't passed another car in three miles.

"According to the map, that's nine miles into the forest on this track

Danny's instructions are to take a turn north, off this lane, after about five miles."

"We've gone almost five miles since we left the county road," Elliot said.

He was driving at only ten miles an hour, but she gave him so little warning that he passed the turnoff

The second gate was one and a half miles past the first, on a short length of straightaway, just over the brow of a hill

He started out of the forest, toward the county lane, which is about five miles from the turnoff to the labs, and after only three miles-"

'Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away

Low Farm was nearly two miles away and I could not possibly get back by six-fifteen

'It's nearly two miles

The countryside for miles around smelled of paraffin

We continued our trip for another nine miles

I had placed myself between those two young lovers! It was all my fault! Now Walter is thousands of miles away in a foreign country

In 1935, she was the first person to fly alone the 2,408 miles across the Pacific between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California

When they came down in Lae, New Guinea, on 29th June, there were only 7,000 more miles to travel

Howland Island is 2,556 miles from Lae in the Pacific Ocean, and it is a very small island.

Valentina was born in a village about 170 miles from Moscow