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

The Dow, however, is up 12 percent for the year, and when it hit 11,000, pundits everywhere proclaimed--depending upon their bullishness and bearishness--this a milestone.
The nonstop, around-the-world balloon flight is the only remaining aviation milestone.
But given the present status of the therapies listed in Table 1, we have, in my view, a high probability of reaching the mouse life extension milestone just described (which I call ‘robust mouse rejuvenation’) within just ten years, given adequate and focused funding (perhaps $100 million per year).
In the DOD process, like with the commercial process, this knowledge point should happen by the production commitment milestone.
You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.