How to Use miler in a Sentence

miler

noun
Definition of milernext
  • Ramirez won the seat with 49 percent of the vote to Milers 45 percent.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 17 May 2017
  • 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
  • Day-of registration is $35 for the four-miler and $20 for the fun run.
    — Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2017
  • 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
  • Old age is not a friend of this slower-than-syrup ancient miler.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Rachel Slusher of Joppa finished in a first-place tie in the women’s 15 miler.
    — Bill Blewett, baltimoresun.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The world’s greatest miler used to be like the heavyweight champion.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2018
  • Some will be closing and reopening at different times for the half marathon and the four miler.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The details: This virtual one-miler can be run anytime from May 28 to June 7.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
  • The Hardrock 100 is a high-altitude hundred- miler amid lightning storms and avalanches.
    — George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
  • Steve Danishek, a travel agent from Seattle and million-miler, is one of them.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • The Fourth of July four-miler and fun run are accepting runners through race day morning.
    — Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Extra-milers like Mr. Goeglein can make a staggering difference on the job.
    — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2019
  • 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
  • This one round trip will turn this Orion capsule into an instant million miler flyer.
    — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • 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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