Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: leagues
IPA transcription: [l'iɡz]
Usage examples
  • "I am three leagues ahead of the battalion."
  • "We are thirty-five leagues below the surface."
  • As for its height, it must have been several leagues.
  • By evening we had cleared 200 leagues up the Atlantic.
  • "Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
  • They were placed at distances of four leagues apart, and I tried them this evening.
  • We have searched the mountains and the valleys for leagues, and we have found no trace.
  • "Thirty or forty leagues; so that we have no time to lose, and we shall set sail to-morrow."
  • "On the road which the Englishman took, Miquelon is the nearest village, not two leagues from here."
  • The marriage was celebrated with great splendour; and all the fairies, for a thousand leagues round, attended it.