Want to use Span correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like duration or brace.
Span in a sentence
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Span meaning
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
Example sentences (20)
In the six-minute span between 8:40 p.m. and 8:46 p.m., the Rocky Top Student Center lost power four separate times.
Boghici pretended she feared for her own wellbeing and got her mother to pay out $1 million over the span of 15 days.
Contracts range over a span of 15 months, allowing investors to make bets on the metal over varying time periods.
Feb. 27 vs. Celtics: The first of two games — one home, one away — against the East-leading Celtics in a six-day span.
Love connected on three full-court outlet passes that led to baskets in a four-minute span in the third quarter.
Everyone has a time span at a football team and when Mo does go, whenever it happens, it will be a sad day for the club.
In the span of five hours and 26 minutes, 104 confirmed tornadoes touched down across North Wales and England.
After rose approximately 40% in a two-year span, many buyers have found themselves unable to afford property.
After facing a pair of top-20 opponents in a span of 48 hours, Fuchs said the team was rightfully exhausted.
But he always scored high in on C-Span’s ranking of U.S. presidents, showing up in the top 10 on this particular standard.
In a six-minute span in the second quarter, Maye made plays that will pop when NFL teams dive into the tape.
And that followed a of insider trading cases involving Goldman staffers through a span of 18 months ending in October 2019.
Dear Jassi was shot across Punjab over a span of 50 days and the last schedule of 2 weeks will be shot in Canada very soon.
It was to be the first of 29 senior international championship appearances across an 18-year career span.
Five of the pitcher’s six total strikeouts were thrown in the span of eight batters across the first, second and third innings.
As someone who loves to see in the genre, getting two shows within the same 30-day span is the dream.
Based on several studies done on artificial reefs in Turkey in 2009, ecosystem improvement can be seen within a span of 14 years.
Fraser marked the second death at The Hand Up Project’s hotel housing unit in a span of about a week.
And how many other teams have bombed that many long balls over a 10-game span in postseason history?
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Common combinations with span
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- span of 64×
- the span 27×
- that span 25×
- in span 17×
- time span 12×
- will span 11×
- over span 8×
- life span 7×
- span is 6×
- span the 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word span. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.