(n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(4) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(5) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(6) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(7) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(8) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(9) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(10) But after 26.2 miles of pain it may be harder to keep that smile on his face.
(11) Miles will be replaced in September by former hedge fund economist Gertjan Vlieghe .
(12) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(13) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(14) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(15) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(16) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(17) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(18) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(19) "It could be the difference between really struggling over the last three or four miles and getting over the finishing line before you dehydrate.
(20) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
Wile
Definition:
(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colin Wiles is an independent housing consultant Interested in housing?
(2) It may be this that compels her to view every man she meets as an opportunity to test whether her wiles are still in full working order, probably unconsciously and probably even if they happen to be the partners of her female friends.
(3) Finance minister John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland he still hoped for a breakthrough at "this very, very, very late stage in the process", saying: Everybody is agreed that this plant has a strong future with the necessary investment and that is why the Scottish Government is wiling to be a player in that.
(4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
(5) But it does explain what might otherwise seem puzzling, that the many Evangelicals among them are perfectly wiling to overlook every transgression in Trump’s past and every crudeness and cruelty in his present conduct, and also to forgive in anticipation whatever future sin might be entailed in breaking up immigrant families or fomenting conflict abroad.
(6) We also do this with actors, comedians and musicians, because we are wiling to accept the “bad boy” persona as part of the act.
(7) After an arduous journey, usually through Thailand and the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, they may end up in Puncak wiling away the time, bemoaning the UNHCR and listless days, playing soccer, and swapping stories of ingenious detention escapes.
(8) In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
(9) When Warner had 89, Prior missed a second stumping off Swann, who used all his wiles to try to keep things in check, and was a strong contributing factor to Alastair Cook missing a catch, offered by the left-hander Rogers, wide to his right hand at first slip, that a confident keeper would have taken.
(10) Bayer Leverkusen beat Leicester City in race to sign Charles Aránguiz Read more Wolfsburg have so far insisted that they are not interested in selling a player signed last January from Chelsea for £18m, although it is understood that they would be wiling to do business at around £50m.
(11) His skill, wile and connections were insufficient, however, to allow him to survive indefinitely.
(12) "I don't blame the media and the Labour front bench for talking about U-turns but actually if more ministers were wiling to put forward proposals and then alter them in the light of evidence that came forth we'd actually have better government."
(13) Tripoli is an exception to this rule because the Lebanese disease of neglect of more distant regions has left the city captive to the wiles of radical Sunni groups and jihadists.
(14) The size and the extent of foliation of the chimeric cerebella were intermediate between wile-type and homozygous Staggerer.
(15) Wile pressor and reflex bradycardic responses to angiotensin II were not altered by prazosin, reflex tachycardia produced produced by histamine and acetylcholine were significantly attenuated by prazosin.
(16) Clegg will leave Brighton aware that his apology on tuition fees has not led to an immediate lift in his poll standing, but aware that most senior figures are wiling him to take the party into the next election, and broadly happy with his positioning of the party at the centre of the political spectrum.
(17) One depicted him as the Road Runner, Bartra the Wile E Coyote trailing in his wake.
(18) Charities are especially vulnerable – perhaps more so than businesses – to the wiles and charms of the next celebrity savior.
(19) One patient had a spontaneous remission during pregnancy wile taking propranolol.
(20) Stiviano's court filing rejected the idea that her “feminine wiles … overpowered the iron will of Donald T Sterling who is well known as one of the most shrewd businessmen in the world”.