Example sentences for: furlongs

How can you use “furlongs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I was taught that five and a half yards made up one rod, pole, or perch; thus, four rods equalled twenty-two yards, the length of a cricket pitch, ten times that made a furlong, and there were eight furlongs to a mile.

  • From here he would plough furlongs (i.e., a furrow long), of 10 chains or 220 yards.

  • Persons of a certain age learned by rote that eight furlongs make a mile, and since the 9th century, a furlong has described an eighth part of an English mile, regardless of its agricultural definition.


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