miles and miles

Idioms  

1. A considerable distance; also, a large interval, by far. For example, We drove for miles and miles before we saw a gas station, or She was miles and miles a better pianist than her brother: This usage was first recorded in 1889.

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Example Sentences

Or is it a sleek, modern home perched atop a mountain where the nearest grocery store is miles and miles away?

From The Wall Street Journal

Fifteen feet deep and miles and miles long, Miami’s canals funneled freshwater from the Everglades and rainwater from regular storms through the city and out to the sea.

From Literature

“You don’t want the newspapers writing that you’re a dowdy old matron with no fashion sense. You want them saying, ‘The detectives wore petticoats—miles and miles of petticoats.’”

From Literature

Beneath the miles and miles of petticoats I was wearing to fill out my shiny green skirt, I shuffled my boots and tried to get comfortable on the stiff sofa.

From Literature

In large part that came from the city’s decadeslong failure to grow, which meant that undeveloped land—miles and miles of it, grazed by cattle—lay within a few minutes’ drive of downtown KCMO.

From The Wall Street Journal