How to Use miler in a Sentence
miler
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Ramirez won the seat with 49 percent of the vote to Milers 45 percent.
—Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 17 May 2017
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The coach did not want to shop the miler to meet directors in pursuit of sub-4:00.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2021
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Day-of registration is $35 for the four-miler and $20 for the fun run.
—Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2017
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The tide goes out as runners head across the hard sand in Ocean City’s end-of-season five-miler.
—Lauren McCutcheon, Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
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Old age is not a friend of this slower-than-syrup ancient miler.
—Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
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Jim Ryun, the first prep sub-four miler, set world records and earned an Olympic silver medal as a student-athlete in the late 1960s.
—Johanna Gretschel, Outside Online, 3 July 2019
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Rachel Slusher of Joppa finished in a first-place tie in the women’s 15 miler.
—Bill Blewett, baltimoresun.com, 1 Aug. 2019
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The world’s greatest miler used to be like the heavyweight champion.
—Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2018
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Some will be closing and reopening at different times for the half marathon and the four miler.
—Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022
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Smith was a 4:09 miler out of high school, started at Utah State and decided to transfer.
—David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2019
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As the runners came around the final turn, a nondescript miler named Fermin Cacho was in the lead.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2021
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The details: This virtual one-miler can be run anytime from May 28 to June 7.
—Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
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The Hardrock 100 is a high-altitude hundred- miler amid lightning storms and avalanches.
—George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
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Steve Danishek, a travel agent from Seattle and million-miler, is one of them.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
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Twelve months ago, Cole Hocker was coming off the best year by a college miler in more than a half-century.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022
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The Fourth of July four-miler and fun run are accepting runners through race day morning.
—Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2017
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In the 1,500 meters, a centerpiece of every Olympics, the Indianapolis miler broke the Olympic record . . .
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2021
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Brielle Whitworth, outstanding as a half-miler in her freshman season last spring, led the Edgewood girls to 15th place.
—Bill Blewett, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
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Jordan, 29, grew up in Sterling Heights and has always been a distance runner, but Amanda, 29, from Tecumseh, was a miler on the track team.
—Bill Laitner, Brandon Folsom, Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
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Mickey dreams up a thing called the slingshot dragster—a quarter-miler with the driver seated behind the rear axle for better traction.
—Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
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That had not occurred in the 1,500 since Australia’s Herb Elliot, sometimes regarded as the greatest miler of all time, led five other men under the record at Rome.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2021
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Giving a vehicle both electric and gas engines is like building an athlete that can sprint like a 100-meter champ and then pull away like a miler.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
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In the meantime, the folks in Detroit who answer to investors—rather than regulators or hyper-milers—would rather sell you an Escalade.
—Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017
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Tucking in behind a sub-4:00-minute miler could propel Roelle to another mark to remember in his year of milestones.
—Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
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With world silver and bronze medals to go with his Olympic gold, Centrowitz has a big race resume unmatched by any American miler in history.
—Scott Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2017
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Athing Mu, a standout half-miler, lives in New Jersey, where Covid-19 remains rampant and training facilities, most of which are at schools, are closed through the end of the academic year.
—Karen Crouse, New York Times, 7 May 2020
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Extra-milers like Mr. Goeglein can make a staggering difference on the job.
—Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2019
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Steve, who preceded Nick as a sub-4:00 miler, is now New Zealand’s national lead distance coach.
—Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2021
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This one round trip will turn this Orion capsule into an instant million miler flyer.
—CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
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There’s Citius Mag, the podcast-heavy online venture by noted impresario and aspiring sub-five-minute miler Chris Chavez.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2021
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