| 加哩 | jiā lǐ | curry (loanword) |
| 叽哩咕噜 | jī li gū lū | (onom.) to jabber; to rumble | |
| 咖哩 | kā li | curry (loanword) | |
| 批哩啪啦 | pī li pā lā | variant of 噼里啪啦 | |
| 噜哩噜苏 | lū li lū sū | to talk unnecessarily or annoyingly; to talk endlessly (idiom) |
| 1 | The scale is an inch to the mile. | |
| 2 | After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. | |
| 3 | Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away. | |
| 4 | Her head certainly was in the clouds--she looked like her mind was a thousand miles away. | |
| 5 | That was when America' s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. |