Words similar to leagues

Example sentences for: leagues

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

This accorded everything lying more than 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands to Spain, while everything lying to the east went to Portugal, thus giving Portugal a free hand in exploiting the Orient.
Seven Leagues was the horse That Villa liked best.
But in the major leagues of status, the city outranks the suburbs.
Acronyms bristle on the page as he records internecine warfare in various Soviet artists' leagues.
During the mid- and late-'70s, NASL lured some of the very best players in the world to America--Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, George Best, Johan Cruyff--and flirted with being one of the world's top leagues.