How to Use nautical mile in a Sentence

nautical mile

noun

• Sleep on the docks of Betsie Bay less than a nautical mile from Lake Michigan.
  — Elizabeth Hosang, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2022
• His boat was found with no one inside over 30 nautical miles west of Grand Haven.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Now, roughly 375 nautical miles to the east, they were poised to begin their mission: to dive to the Titanic.
  — Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• 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
• The Dreamliner flies short- and medium-haul routes of less than 2,700 nautical miles.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The onboard battery pack is reckoned good for between 30 and 80 nautical miles of range per charge.
  — New Atlas, 26 July 2024
• The Coast Guard has been searching more than 4,900 nautical miles as part of a recovery effort.
  — Fox News, 16 Nov. 2019
• Its radar has a detection range of more than 200 nautical miles for air targets.
  — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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 equipment required would need to travel to a nearby port, be welded together, and then sail 370 nautical miles—which takes around a day and a half—to the site of the wreck.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• The sun sets onboard the Esperanza in the Sargasso Sea, 300+ nautical miles off the coast of Bermuda.
  — Shailene Woodley, Time, 4 Sep. 2019
• 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
• One such vessel, the Prestige Falcon oil tanker, capsized 25 nautical miles off the coast of Oman Monday.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 17 July 2024
• At the time, the cruise ship was about 30 nautical miles (55 kilometers) from New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• Only two pieces remain big enough (at least 20 square nautical miles) to be tracked by the National Ice Center.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2018
• Prior messages to reroute the ship at least 100 nautical miles from the combat zone weren’t received by the ship until afterward.
  — The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
• The location of the trip is listed as about 380 nautical miles south of Newfoundland, Canada.
  — Richard Lawler, The Verge, 20 June 2023
• After negotiations with Taipei, Beijing agreed at the time to move the route six nautical miles to the west of its original path.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Most of the volume of sockeye caught in the fishery happens in the federal waters, which start 3 nautical miles offshore.
  — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Compare that, Makris said, to one degree of latitude, which is 60 nautical miles.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• The search area was widened from five to 10 nautical miles from where the plane is believed to have crashed, said Didi Hamzar, director of preparedness for the search-and-rescue agency.
  — I Made Sentana, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• Before arriving in the Middle East, the vessel had been on an epic journey, though one not measured in nautical miles.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• The wreck of the Titanic is in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 370 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• After much fanfare leading up to its maiden voyage, the Swedish ship capsized and sank in 1628, having sailed less than a nautical mile.
  — Jonathan Irish, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• In the first incident, the coast guard was alerted to a boat drifting because of mechanical failure at sea, 46 nautical miles south of the island of Crete.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• The turbines will be one nautical mile apart, too close together for some boats to navigate safely.
  — Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The incident happened Tuesday just after 1 a.m. when the ship was about 65 nautical miles off the coast of Venice, Louisiana.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2019
• The Philippine boat was on its way to deliver supplies to an outpost the country maintains at Second Thomas Shoal, about 100 nautical miles off its coast.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024