How do you use Spans in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Spans meaning
plural of span
Using Spans
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of span
- In the example corpus, spans often appears in combinations such as: that spans, spans the, spans over.
Context around Spans
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spans
- In this selection, "spans" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, approach, career, season, five, two and harlem stand out and add context to how "spans" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and approach spans and by and attention spans have shrunk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spans" sits close to words such as aggregate, bounced and brutality, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spans
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
California spans over nearly 156,000 square miles. (8 words)
Also, the designer’s history with i-D spans his whole career. (12 words)
The wet season spans from May through December, and the dry season spans from January through April. (17 words)
For instance, an augmented third such as C–E spans five semitones, exceeding a major third (C–E) by one semitone, while a diminished third such as C –E spans two semitones, falling short of a minor third (C–E ) by one semitone. (43 words)
Access Now relied on technical assessments as well as news articles and personal accounts to compile its report, which spans complete blackouts, suspensions of specific phone networks or social media apps, and the slowing down of internet speeds. (38 words)
Work on the bridge itself commenced with the construction of approaches and approach spans, and by September 1926 concrete piers to support the approach spans were in place on each side of the harbour. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The existing 19-foot-wide bridge deck over the arch spans is bare concrete while the timber approach spans are paved with an asphalt concrete overlay.
For instance, an augmented third such as C–E spans five semitones, exceeding a major third (C–E) by one semitone, while a diminished third such as C –E spans two semitones, falling short of a minor third (C–E ) by one semitone.
The wet season spans from May through December, and the dry season spans from January through April.
Transportation Bridges Harlem River spans; Harlem to the left and the Bronx to the right The Harlem River separates the Bronx and Manhattan, necessitating several spans between the two New York City boroughs.
Work on the bridge itself commenced with the construction of approaches and approach spans, and by September 1926 concrete piers to support the approach spans were in place on each side of the harbour.
Access Now relied on technical assessments as well as news articles and personal accounts to compile its report, which spans complete blackouts, suspensions of specific phone networks or social media apps, and the slowing down of internet speeds.
Also, the designer’s history with i-D spans his whole career.
Although the film spans various parallels and meridians of space, the most loved chunk of the action set pieces happen on the moon.
A senior official of CR said, “Out of 3 spans of the road-over-bridge falling in the railway area, two-span girders have been installed, 10 in total.
A stunning rainbow spans the sky after a heavy downpour at St Clair beach, Dunedin, late this afternoon.
Attention spans have shrunk so much that fewer primary school children are now able to sit still during assemblies.
Bana, whose Hollywood career spans more than 20 years after he was first noticed for in 2001, says there’s “some regret” in the delay, but a lot of “conviction” in the decision.
Barbie is just the latest memorable character from the talented Australian actress, whose career spans the course of fifteen years.
Benjamin has worked in the global agricultural commodity trading field for over a decade and his experience spans across commodity trading, finance, M&A and operations.
Berkeley’s Alan Bern, a former Berkeley librarian for 21 years, is a polymath whose work spans performance, photography, poetry and prose.
Caleb responds by casting a wall of fire that spans the ship and cutting the two sides off.
California spans over nearly 156,000 square miles.
Chapel Court, which spans Queen Street, Market Street and Castle Street in Wolverhampton city centre, formerly housed Jobcentre Plus.
Childhood development experts say that a general guideline for attention spans is two to three minutes per year of age.
Cicero Blake’s career spans the trajectory of modern soul music from doo-wop to contemporary southern soul-blues.
Common combinations with spans
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: