milepost
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How to use milepost in a sentence
It starts at milepost 39 on Chena River Road and gains 2,900 feet of elevation.
The easier access is via Paria River Valley Scenic Backway, a rough dirt road leading north from US-89 at milepost 31, and then walking a short sandy trail and crossing the river.
The Most Adventurous Ghost Towns to Explore Across the U.S. | awise | September 24, 2021 | Outside OnlineEven in a season such as this, a time for drift and going with the flow, it can be useful to search out landmarks to mark the passage of the days, and Monday seemed to be one of those mileposts.
Monday was a summer landmark: The last sunrise before 6:30 a.m. | Martin Weil | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostFor many of us at Ars, the big mileposts were abstract—things that happened to other people or society as a whole as we continued to work from home.
The moments we realized the pandemic would change everything | John Timmer | March 12, 2021 | Ars TechnicaThe incident occurred at milepost 249, just north of Harrisonburg.
I-81 closed near Harrisonburg after truck strikes overpass | Dana Hedgpeth | November 12, 2020 | Washington Post
It marks a white milepost in the onward and upward march of Freedom.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 | Elbert HubbardClose to the line was a milepost indicating that a certain Dutch town was two miles west.
World's War Events, Vol. II | VariousI asked him to indicate what in his opinion would be the next great milepost of Smuts' progress.
An African Adventure | Isaac F. MarcossonIt is the milepost between the time that was and the time that is, that flask, and to it we owe the single standard of drinking.
Nonsenseorship | G. G. Putnam and OthersI am sure no man of brilliant mind can pass this milepost and not hitch his team and do some precious loading.
Philosophy of Osteopathy | Andrew T. Still
British Dictionary definitions for milepost
/ (ˈmaɪlˌpəʊst) /
horse racing a marking post on a racecourse a mile before the finishing line
mainly US and Canadian a signpost that shows the distance in miles to or from a place: Also called (esp Brit): milestone
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