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Example sentences for "mile away"

  • But our men are willing and anxious to meet them," said Dick.

  • He handed the glasses to Warner and said quietly: "George, I see troops on the edge of that far hill to the south and the east.

  • Unless he had witnesses nobody would believe the boy.

  • A quarter of a mile away was a lofty ridge on which were posted Union guns with gunners who knew so well how to use them.

  • Lee was a mile away, standing on a wooded hill, the bearded Longstreet by his side, watching the battle in his immediate front, where accumulating masses under Pope's own eye were gathering.

  • The cry was taken up by others who saw also, and suddenly a long Southern line, less than half a mile away, emerged into the open and advanced upon them in silence, but with resolution, a bristling and terrific front of steel.

  • Had the cottage been a mile away, it would still have seemed near.

  • We drove to the Grand Duke Michael's, a mile away, in response to his invitation, previously given.

  • The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride.

  • I have seen a ship in flames that looked scarce a mile away, and yet, sailing with a brisk wind, it took us over an hour to come up to it.

  • The revenue man on that beat has been paid to keep his eyes shut, and we shall get them all stored in a hut, a mile away in the woods, before daybreak.

  • Suddenly a tremendous explosion was heard a quarter of a mile away.

  • The kraal was built on the top of a hill, and below it the land sloped gently to the banks of a river about half a mile away.

  • Suddenly a shout announced that they had found the spoor of the cattle, and the whole Impi of them started down it at a run till they vanished over a rise about a quarter of a mile away.

  • Evidently the herd had travelled fast and far, and I began to think that we should have to give it up, when suddenly I caught sight of a brown mass moving through the thorn-trees on the side of a slope about a quarter of a mile away.

  • Ki Sing turned, and pointed to a rude hut some half a mile away in a little mountain nook.

  • I met that Chinaman of yours half a mile away, and he brought me here.

  • If I am not very much mistaken, we shall find it hidden in a hole in a tree, quarter of a mile away.

  • It had seemed very near, but proved to be fully a quarter of a mile away.

  • For there, marching rapidly, not half a mile away, were some five hundred white-robed men.

  • That is the matter," he said, pointing to a man mounted on a rough pony who just then appeared from behind some bushes about half a mile away, galloping down the slope towards the plain.

  • They sat upon the bowlders to watch, for their officers were not going to waste their wind in assisting to repulse a Ghazi rush more than half a mile away.

  • A weak fire broke from the rear-guard more than a mile away, and was answered by cheerful howlings.

  • These gangs were in the out-workings, three-quarters of a mile away, on the extreme fringe of the mine.

  • Three-quarters of a mile away, directly opposite, the other bank of the stream uprose in precipitous bluffs hundreds of feet in height.

  • The first spruce-trees, in the creek bed, were a mile away, and it was evident that Shorty had passed through them and gone on.

  • Here the Klondike entered the Yukon, and half a mile away, across the Klondike, on the north bank, stood Dawson.

  • The Indians were already a quarter of a mile away, and were just entering the wood below.

  • They war maybe a mile away when I turned into the valley.

  • These were half a mile away, but every movement was as clearly visible as if they were but a hundred yards distant.

  • In ten seconds the other five were howling with him, and scarcely had the tumult burst from their throats when there came a response from the fire half a mile away.

  • Not more than a third of a mile away a point of yellow flame flared up in the night.

  • As there was nothing whatever for us to do while this was going on, I had ample leisure for observing the little game that was being played about a quarter of a mile away.

  • Out we shot from the ship, all on our mettle; for was not the skipper's eye upon us from his lofty eyrie, as well as the crew of the other ship, now not more than a mile away!

  • Not a mile away, dead to leeward of us, quietly beating the water with the flat of his flukes, as if there was no such thing in the watery world as a whale-ship.

  • Five or six mighty waterspouts in various stages of development were often within easy distance of us; once, indeed, we watched the birth, growth, and death of one less than a mile away.

  • At Athabaska Landing I was shown a house on a hill, half a mile away, to which he had carried on his back 450 pounds of flour without stopping.

  • A score now appeared on a sandhill half a mile away; another and another lone specimen trotted past our camp.

  • It was undoubtedly some animal with short legs, whether a Wolverine a mile away, or a Musk-ox two miles away, was doubtful.

  • They sat upon the boulders to watch, for their officers were not going to waste their wind in assisting to repulse a Ghazi rush more than half a mile away.

  • Half a mile away, the regimental band was playing the overture to the Sing-song, for the men had been told that Bobby was out of danger.

  • A great Sussex wain, top-heavy with hay, was drawing out of a farmyard among trees, a quarter of a mile away.

  • The bottom of the coombe was flat as a floor, the cliff running athwart it a quarter of a mile away.

  • The cottage stood about a quarter of a mile away, conspicuously solitary in the greensward, the Union Jack brave above it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mile away" 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:
    had ceased; judicial review; just cause; mile above; mile after; mile apart; mile away; mile beyond; mile farther; mile from the shore; mile front; mile north; mile road; mile walk; mile wide; miles apart; miles away; miles broad; miles long; miles south; miles west; miles wide; much expedition; save when; shall appear; would pass