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Example sentences for "miles away"

  • There was a possibility of her being round a headland which stretched out some ten miles away, but that was all.

  • Further north there were towns and villages, but these were hundreds of miles away.

  • In truth, she was seeing things millions of miles away; she was seeing a Promised Land.

  • Garnett was thousands of miles away, and he had not heard from him for five years.

  • While she was gone to her bedroom Kitty stood still in the middle of the room lost in reflection, as completely absorbed as though she was seeing things thousands of miles away.

  • Miles away on the west, the five summits of the Ardjeono had been the first to reflect the rays hidden from us.

  • Miles away, the Salak raises his majestic cone against the blue sky.

  • We ate a hasty meal, then packed our animals and started for the willow patch about four miles away.

  • The mines are yet five hundred miles away, and we know not of any work for us to do nearer.

  • It seemed to me the dim snowy mountains must be as far as 200 miles away, but of course I could not judge accurately.

  • It happened that Doria had gone ten miles away to Sessola for anchorage, and the Galleon of Venice lay becalmed right in the path of the advancing fleet.

  • The Canopus he knew was laboring northward 250 miles away.

  • Admiral Beatty's opportune dash into action at this time, from his position 40 miles away, was in response to an urgent call from Tyrwhitt at 11.

  • Fortunately for the Germans, they had already been warned of Beatty's approach by one of their light cruisers, and had just turned back at high speed when the British battle cruisers made them out to southeastward 14 miles away.

  • After a voyage of nearly an hour's duration it descended in a field some 15 miles away.

  • Early the following morning he left for Dublin, 222 miles away.

  • Thousands of miles away in the Far East it stimulated his genius and quickened his pen.

  • So that when the silent night descends, you find yourself revisiting in dreams those ocean shores thousands of miles away.

  • To the listening soul of his friend beyond the ocean, thousands of miles away, he poured forth all his disillusionments, all his anxieties.

  • Heavy rain, with which we filled the tanks, fell during the night, and at noon next day we sighted the low island of Kar Nicobar, lying some 22 miles away.

  • It is now but thirty-five millions of miles away from us.

  • Soon it will begin to recede, at the rate of twenty-eight millions of miles a year, until it is two hundred and thirty four millions of miles away from us.

  • Now, when it is but thirty-five millions of miles away, we have a chance to get there.

  • Miles away, and low down upon the horizon, a white light blinked solemnly; then after a brief interval it was succeeded by a red gleam.

  • A couple of miles away was a large ocean cargo-boat, outward bound, and U75 was in pursuit.

  • The spy recognized the voice of the British lad whom he imagined to be miles away, on board an unterseeboot.

  • We have to conceive of this condensed Aether situated north and south of the plane of the ecliptic, and situated probably millions of miles away.

  • The usual half-breed or Indian village is seldom farther than a couple of miles away, on the same water.

  • Its main peculiarity was that its boss (for it was like an American city in the possession of that functionary also) had announced that he was going to move it a couple of miles away on the following Sunday.

  • The French colonist felt it more keenly than the people thousands of miles away, occupied with many other things.

  • You could hear it miles away, a fierce roar such as the droves of bisons made, as if they were breaking in at your very door.

  • It was no longer everything for a king whose rigorous command was that there should be no thought of self-government, that every plan and edict must come from a court thousands of miles away, that knew nothing of the country.

  • Even with the naked eye we can admire the grand planet Saturn, which is more than 800 millions of miles away, and this in itself is very marvellous.

  • An hour later they had increased so much as to be heard at Bandong and other places 150 miles away, and at 5 p.

  • Then, Lucille was thousands of miles away (geographically, and millions of miles away in imagination).


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miles 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:
    also reap; building materials; common law; economic importance; frequently happens; him was; honest fellow; honestly believe; little nearer; mile and; miles across; miles broad; miles from its mouth; miles from the sea; miles further; miles high; miles long; miles nearer; miles south; miles southwest; miles west; miles wide; nice point; settling down; shows himself; thousand pistoles