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square mile

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Noun1.square mile - an area of 640 acres
area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas
section - a land unit equal to 1 square mile


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The event of Tess Durbeyfield's return from the manor of her bogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
found a population of ten to the square mile, inconveniently
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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