Example sentences for: mileage

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

  • The mileage and club arrangements do not require government approval, says the paper, but the schedule changes do.

  • Over the weekend we've seen him on both Saturday Night Live and the Late Show With David Letterman . He stood up Howard Stern last night, which probably garnered him more mileage that actually being on the show when Howard waxed repeatedly wrathful, as, although David pleaded flu, callers reported him carousing in the Mercer Kitchen until 4 a.m.

  • Over the years, Jesse Jackson has got a lot of mileage out of remembering the blood of Martin Luther King Jr. that smeared his shirt when he cradled the dying leader in his arms.

  • In the Weimar period, moreover, the Nationalist Socialists found they couldn't get much mileage out of raw appeals to anti-Jewish prejudice, and often toned down their anti-Semitism around election time.

  • Inglis gets fabulous mileage out of this, doing a brilliant "more in sorrow than in anger" act that casts him as too horrified even to repeat Hollings' slurs.


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