How to Use nautical mile in a Sentence

nautical mile

noun
  • Those boats are about 46 nautical miles from the enclave’s shores, the group said.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The team will be able to travel 120 nautical miles to pick up a patient.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The nautical mile is roughly 900 feet longer than a standard mile.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • His boat was found with no one inside over 30 nautical miles west of Grand Haven.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Its radar has a detection range of more than 200 nautical miles for air targets.
    — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The ship was roughly eight nautical miles southwest of the island of Ponza at the time.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • These systems can now scan for turbulence up to 60 nautical miles ahead of the aircraft.
    — Jim Foerster, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The ship had drifted 26 nautical miles northeast from where it was first located.
    — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There was no telling what toll such an extreme pace would take on the ships’ turbines when sustained for 453 nautical miles.
    — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Extra’s newest model will go that extra nautical mile.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sleep on the docks of Betsie Bay less than a nautical mile from Lake Michigan.
    — Elizabeth Hosang, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2022
  • The one-minute tracking rule was designed to resolve that blind spot, by aiming to nail down a crash site to within a radius of six nautical miles.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The onboard battery pack is reckoned good for between 30 and 80 nautical miles of range per charge.
    — New Atlas, 26 July 2024
  • It was seen 95 nautical miles northeast of the vessel, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
    — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • So far, crews have searched for over 71 hours and covered about 100,000 square nautical miles.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The journey covers 130 nautical miles, a fraction of the river's length.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • One person was found alive 10 nautical miles, roughly 11 miles, off the coast of Derna.
    — Samy Magdy and Yousef Mourad, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Both missiles landed in the water about 10 nautical miles from the vessels, and no one was injured, the news release says.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The yacht can reach speeds of up to seven knots and cover up to 1,000 nautical miles on electricity alone.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The incident took place 11 nautical miles north of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Dreamliner flies short- and medium-haul routes of less than 2,700 nautical miles.
    — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Kharg Island lies about 15 nautical miles off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the nautical mile is defined by the size of 1 minute of a latitude (where there are 60 minutes in 1 degree).
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 May 2018
  • Its cruising speed, meanwhile, sits at 14 knots, at which the vessel has a range of around 5,000 nautical miles.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The crash occurred about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Milwaukee, Lauofo said.
    — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sky Harbor is within 30 nautical miles of the stadium.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Needless to say, hitting a moving carrier group at 1,620 nautical miles distant is not an easy task.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
  • The ship was about 145 nautical miles west of Washington’s Cape Flattery at the time.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The clash at sea, about a nautical mile off the Cuban coast, resulted in the death of several of the men in the Florida vessel.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The Cuban coast guard shot and killed four other people aboard the boat, which came within one nautical mile of the Caribbean island's shores.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026

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