Collocations for "mile"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "mile" in context.
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mile
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [nautical, country] mile
- [ten] miles
- [ten] miles [east, west, south, north]
- [twenty] miles [to the, due] east
- about a mile (and a half)
- a mile in [radius, diameter]
- within a radius of [three] miles
- is [ten] miles from [here, downtown, the airport, the coast]
- is [fifty] miles from [London]
- the [beach, coastline, valley] stretches for [twenty] miles
- covered [sixty] miles in [forty] minutes
- the race is [ten] miles
- a marathon is twenty-six miles
- have to run the mile [today, at school, in gym class]
- runs a [four] -minute mile
- can reach a speed of [200] miles per hour
- [traveling, flying, moving] at [500] miles per hour
- was driving at [fifty] miles per hour
- was driving [twenty] miles over the limit
- How many miles [to go, left]?
- How many miles left?
- drove for miles and miles
- the [road, path] goes on for miles and miles
- it seems like we've been driving for miles
- informal: hit the wall after [twenty] miles
- walked for miles to [get, find, look for]
- walked for miles to get [help, water, gas, food]
- [piled, stacked] a mile high
- missed the [target, goal] by a mile
- your [guess, answer] is a mile off
- informal: (prepared to) go the extra mile (in order to)
- informal: (always) went the extra mile (in order to)
- sexually explicit: the mile-high club
- a [five] -mile [hike, walk, journey]
'mile' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):