square mile
noun
a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; equivalent to 2.59 square kilometers. mi 2 , sq. mi.
square miles
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pluralof square mile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For example, Rainmaker's 19 million gallons equates to around 0.01 inch of rain across 100 square miles.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Third Army Corps also says it has recently reclaimed about 68 square miles in the direction of Lyman, a city in the Donetsk region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around us, the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos, are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Eighty percent of the bird species in Albania can be found here, across sand dunes, pine forest, and a lagoon that stretches over 16 square miles.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
By the early 1990s Folan's team had learned that this long-ignored place covered as much as twenty-five square miles and had thousands of buildings and dozens of reservoirs and canals.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
