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Can I use a dash to replace a repeating verb?

English Language & Usage Asked by Kard Nails on September 30, 2021

In my language (Bulgarian) you can use a dash to replace a verb that you have already used in the same sentence. For example:

The distance from London to Paris is 500km, from Paris to Munich —
850km, and from Munich to Luxembourg — 530km.

Is this is any way grammatically correct in English, or is there a way to recreate it using different punctuation? I simply want to omit the "to be" verb the second and third time I’m using it in a row in the exact same context.

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