as in mile
a long distance
the distance from the car to the concert hall felt like a country mile in her new high heels
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Recent Examples of country mile
The hyperbole of Robinson hitting baseballs a country mile and stealing bases at the speed of light.
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025
With the most cap space in the league by a country mile, the pressure was extraordinary for the New England brass.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Nobody within a country mile of it of course.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
Beyoncé walks a country mile in Nancy Sinatra’s boots, the Cure drop one of their most classic albums after a 16-year wait, Doechii leaves her own toothmarks on the alligator, MJ Lenderman dares to challenge the milkshake/smoothie dichotomy.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
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Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025
With the most cap space in the league by a country mile, the pressure was extraordinary for the New England brass.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Nobody within a country mile of it of course.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
Beyoncé walks a country mile in Nancy Sinatra’s boots, the Cure drop one of their most classic albums after a 16-year wait, Doechii leaves her own toothmarks on the alligator, MJ Lenderman dares to challenge the milkshake/smoothie dichotomy.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for country mile
mile
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He had been wanted on charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping in connection with the suffocation deaths of Paityn Decker, 9; Evelyn Decker, 8, and Olivia Decker, 5, of Wenatchee in Chelan County, about 150 miles east of Seattle.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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One of them is 27 kilometers (more than 16½ miles) long.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Country mile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20mile. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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