SPACE in a Sentence

Learn SPACE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

349 example sentences for SPACE, such as:

1. From words to deeds is a great space.
2. Enter your name in the space provided.
3. She shuffled her feet to clear a space.
4. There's a space here for your signature.
5. And spurring see decrease the middle space.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
space
 n.  an empty area
 v.  place apart
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Only a few great names--Babylon, Nineveh, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Troy--floated across the open space.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  She shuffled her feet to clear a space.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
3  But in fact there was more space than was needed, and great hooded chairs.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
4  These observations, though they have taken so great a space to be set down in, were yet the work of a few seconds.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
5  She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
6  A narrow space, betwixt these galleries and the lists, gave accommodation for yeomanry and spectators of a better degree than the mere vulgar, and might be compared to the pit of a theatre.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any higher place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  And spurring see decrease the middle space.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  An awful pause of horror silenced each murmur of the armed spectators, who, for the space of several minutes, stirred not a finger, save to sign the cross.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  His will is the mountain stream, which may indeed be turned for a little space aside by the rock, but fails not to find its course to the ocean.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  In the space of a minute she opened her eyes, looked fixedly on the pile as if to familiarize her mind with the object, and then slowly and naturally turned away her head.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  'Perhaps she'll float off into space altogether,' said Dukes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Its tiny cleared space was lush and cold and dismal.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
16  The writer lacked the time and space to develop his idea fully.
17  Early booking is essential, as space is limited.
18  Vast amounts of energy, from X-rays right through the spectrum down to radio waves, are escaping into space.
19  Enter your name in the space provided.
20  Helen described life in a weightless environment during her period in space.
21  There is, regretfully, no space in this article to examine all these issues.
22  Her emotions had ranged from anger to guilt in the space of a few seconds.
23  I couldn't find a parking space near the shops.
24  When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
25  Horses need to satisfy their desire for space and freedom.
26  From words to deeds is a great space.
27  Speaking generally, the space enterprise has served astronomy well.
28  There's a space here for your signature.
29  After the kill the men and old women collect in an open space and eat a meal of whale meat.
30  Flotation collars are used to buoy space capsules that land in the sea.