Use space in a sentence
Sentences starting with space
- Space is nothing if minds are in sympathy. [11]
- Space is not given me for further quotations from Irving's brilliant descriptions of court, characters, and society in that revolutionary time, nor of his half-melancholy pilgrimage to the southern scenes of his former reveries. [4]
- Space forbids further description of the discussion. [10]
Sentences ending with space
- The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
- I feel grateful when I can permit our poets to adorn my leisure for a brief space. [10]
- But the day went on and the old mother forgot all the wrongs that she had suffered, and yearned over the trivial woman who was hurrying out into the Great Space. [11]
- They bristled with weapons, and armed men crowded every corner of space. [11]
- This is a very curious and interesting circumstance, and is a withering rebuke to those philosophers who would make us believe that it is not possible for any portion of the earth to fly off into space. [5]
- So it seemed to him advisable, unless his majesty wished to reveal this sweet secret to the world, to part from his beautiful friend, at least for a short space. [10]
- Presently they came to a clear space. [11]
- The eyes of this man before me were fixed, as it were, upon space. [9]
- But even now they could not make their way to the long row of houses where the embalmers dwelt, for an impenetrable mass of human beings stood pent up in front of them, and Melissa begged her brother to give her a moment's breathing space. [10]
- This covered in the whole of the open space. [10]
Sentences containing space two or more times
- The difference between the branches of science which deal with space only, and those which deal with space and time, is this: we have no glasses that can magnify time. [3]
- I was with him one voyage when he got his last vacant space tattooed; this vacant space was around his left ankle. [5]
More example sentences with the word space in them
- I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
- She saw a woman, in the space of an instant, mend a broken thread. [9]
- Plenty of skylights without rooms enough and space enough below. [6]
- The cooks vied with them and with each other, and as if by magic, in a short space of time a richly-adorned banquet for the hungry guests appeared, at which even the flowers were not wanting. [10]
- An enormous space, with our army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; in front of him was misty darkness. [2]
- In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. [5]
- For a space, while his spell was upon them, they did not stir. [9]
- The vast mob which thronged the wide space beyond the shouting circle just round us was much like that of any other fair, so far as I could see from my royal perch. [6]
- There are days which count in space for years, and years for days. [9]
- Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
- All the indications were that way, and a rumour flew from table to table-leaping space, as rumours will--that the Gaylords had sent to Ripton for Austen. [9]
- As the inhabitants were forbidden to cross the space dividing the stadium from the Serapeum, all was perfectly still. [10]
- The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
- Both men, therefore, went down to the square, though the crowds seeking the temple and thronging the space before Didymus's house made it more and more difficult to pace to and fro. [10]
- As the night went by, and the offices had been done for the dead, she took her place by the bedside of the young wife, who lay staring into space, tearless and still, the life consuming away within her. [11]
- To form her we must have light and more light--and when it is lighter here the voice of the people down there, which does not sound very delightful up in this hollow space, will diminish somewhat also. [10]
- There was one way in from the desert to the walled town, and it was through that space which Achmet and his men had occupied, and on which Ali Wad Hei might now, at any moment, throw his troops. [11]
- You wouldn't have wasted space on it if it hadn't had point. [5]
- The stallion's neck was stretched, his shoes rang on the cobbles, and my eyes were fixed on a narrow space between carriages coming together. [9]
- The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
- Suddenly the court-artist was ordered to suspend the work, and have the beams, ladders and boards, which narrowed the space in the picadero,--[Riding School]--removed. [10]
- I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
- That of Stephanus was exceptionally high and deep, and yet the space was but small which divided the two beds of dried mountain herbs where, on one, slept the father, and on the other, the son. [10]
- The sick man was borne round the eastern side of the huge building, which covered a space on which a whole village might have stood. [10]
- While yet there was a space between the two processions, the bands broke into furious contest. [11]
- Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
- Down this space walked the Archbishop and his canons, and after them followed those five stately figures in splendid harness, each bearing his feudal banner--and riding! [5]
- Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
- Vouchsafe then to Verus a brief space of happiness before the horrible end you foresee for him. [10]
- She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
- The advertisements depend upon the circulation; the circulation is likely to dwindle if too much space is occupied by advertisements, or if it is evident that the paper belongs to its favored advertisers. [4]
- George gazed speechless upon the battered and grotesque nightmare before him for the space of thirty seconds, and then wilted to the floor and went into convulsions. [5]
- Those still higher up pursue the same method until the whole space is occupied. [1]
- To tell the truth to none but you, I cannot endure to be away from the old place a longer space than it takes to go to Alexandria and back. [10]
- She could not trust to forcing her way in on the day of the ceremony of abdication, for every place in the limited space assigned to spectators had been carefully allotted, and no one would be permitted to enter the palace without a pass. [10]
- Upon her return toward the house she went by the lane to the stables, and she had scarcely entered the great open space with its corrals and sheds when she saw Lassiter hurriedly approaching. [13]
- Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
- These shaded tints together fill up the whole inner space of the elliptic ornament. [1]
- I leave it to you to decide whether it would be better to delay the printing that space of time, or to commence it immediately. [14]
- He is entitled to use the space for which he pays by the insertion of such material as is approved by the editor. [4]
- They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised. [11]
- Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it. [2]
- They often stopped to rest, but only for a short space at a time, and still kept on, having had but slight refreshment since the morning. [12]
- And it came to pass that they fought for the space of three hours, and they fainted with the loss of blood. [5]
- It seemed plain to me that too much space was given to poetry and romance, and not enough to statistics and agriculture. [5]
- It was necessary to enter, but the smoke and dust which filled the air seemed to preclude this, and, besides, a high wall above the cleared space in the building threatened to fall. [10]
- Parties were able to elude each other for the space of half an hour without going beyond the "known" ground. [5]
- They ought not to be allowed much space among better people--people who did something--I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. [5]
- He was talking to a vague audience, into that space where a man's eyes look when he is searching his own mind, discovering it to himself. [11]
- The columns rose to a gigantic height, the eye seemed to wander through immeasurable space, and the air breathed by the worshippers was heavy with the fragrance of Kyphi and incense, and the odors which arose from the laboratory attached to the temple. [10]
- Thus for a time they swung together in ethereal space, breathless with the motion of their flight. [9]
- One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each considers the perfection of style and taste, and walk down the vacant central space and back again with that multitude of critical eyes on them. [5]
- The rest had time and space enough to beware of the wreck and to give it a wide berth, among them Marcus. [10]
- The road lay through the middle of an empty space which seemed to me to be a hundred yards wide between the fences. [5]
- But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. [9]
- He gathered his thin fingers in a bunch at his lips, and made an airy salute to the warm space between the candles. [11]
- There was a thin chest of drawers on the other side, and the small coal stove that stood in the centre so nearly filled the remaining space that the two visitors were one too many. [4]
- Mrs. Colfax, when they are come out of the narrow street into the great open space, remarks this with alarm. [9]
- Ten pages of these sky-scrapers of yours would pay me only about three hundred dollars; in my simplified vocabulary the same space and the same labor would pay me eight hundred and forty dollars. [5]
- The recipient of these letters sometimes wonders, after reading through one of them, how it is that his young correspondent has managed to fill so much space with her simple message of admiration or of sympathy. [6]
- The places for these interested persons were divided from the stage by a space for the orchestra, whence the stage was easily reached by steps up which the chorus were wont to mount to it. [10]
- For a space there was the silence of the grave. [5]
- For a space there was only the bumping and straining of the yacht and the swish of the water against her sides. [9]
- For a space there was a very bedlam of cries and broken heads, those behind in the mob surging forward to reach the scrimmage, forcing their own comrades over the edge. [9]
- At that instant there pushed forward into the clear space beside Charley Steele the great figure of Jake Hough, the horse-doctor, the strongest man, and the most popular Englishman on the river. [11]
- As the population then increased, and consequently the number of patients, space was wanting in which to house them, for the dilapidated Poor-house--whither they were carried--was no longer large enough to accommodate them all. [10]
- Others had flung themselves down in an open space surrounded by shrubbery in the Paneum garden, and were drinking the choice wine which Dion's cellarer, by his orders, had brought and was pouring out for the crowd. [10]
- They occupied by themselves a fairly large space, enclosed by a rough wall of dried mud-bricks. [10]
- He leaned over the widening space and said in a low tone, as David again drew near: "There is still an account which should be settled, Saadat. [11]
- They said that the wide space dates from the earliest sheep and cattle-raising days. [5]
- But now between the warring strings there grows A space of peace, as 'tween truce-honoured foes. [11]
- It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. [6]
- Please observe:-- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. [5]
- Then filling in the space between the mound and two contiguous stones, the impost could be dragged up to its position. [6]
- Here we have the smooth and placidly-complaining sea at our door, with nothing between us and it but 20 yards of shingle--and hardly a suggestion of life in that space to mar it or make a noise. [5]
- Presently, however, because the screws were larger than the old ones, it became much harder; the task called forth more strength, and drove all thought of being seen out of her mind for a space. [11]
- The space behind the rear seats was filled with men standing, and those nearest glanced around with annoyance at the interruption of my entrance. [9]
- As she entered the open space in front of the house, she heard footsteps behind her and turned quickly, not without apprehension. [11]
- Yonder gives it the necessary space, yonder can one a noble long German sentence elaborate, the bridge-railing along, and his whole contents with one glance overlook. [5]
- He softly drew-to the little curtain of the cabin window, leaving only one small space through which the moonlight streamed. [11]
- We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
- The sea faded, the light fell, and I was in the eternal cold of space between the whirling worlds. [9]
- As he travelled the intervening space, shrugging his shoulders, staggering serenely, he told himself in confidence that he would leave the church at dawn, go to the tavern, purchase a horse as soon as might be, and get back to his wagon. [11]
- For many hours the helpless man lay insensible, but at last the flickering spirit struggled back to light for a little space. [11]
- Lassiter looked at the grave and then out into space. [13]
- For space is the fluid in which he is washing, and time is the soap which he is using up in the process, and he cannot get free from them until he can wash himself in a mental vacuum. [6]
- He traveled about the empire, leaving as wide a space as possible between himself and that house of doom, from which he could never wipe out the stain of his brother's blood. [10]
- We stood on the edge of the ocean of space, and looked out over the dimness, but couldn't make out anything. [5]
- As soon as the door in the back of the vehicle opened, and the cold snowy air entered the dark, damp space under the tilt, Magister Sutor's lips parted in a long-drawn "Ugh! [10]
- So much for the doctrines of Hahnemann, which have been stated without comment, or exaggeration of any of their features, very much as any adherent of his opinions might have stated them, if obliged to compress them into so narrow a space. [3]
- Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
- The space between the columns and the walls was filled with choice plants, palms, oleanders, pomegranates, oranges and roses, behind which an invisible band of harp and flute-players was stationed, who received the guests with strains of monotonous, solemn music. [10]
- In this hour the clock of time fills all the space between earth and heaven. [11]
- The agony was the breathing space we had while they crept nearer. [9]
- Presently, however, when the body was spent, the mind began to practise its subtle and intolerable torture, and she was invaded by a sense of loneliness colder than the space between the worlds. [9]
- After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it. [6]
- Likewise he desired that we might live together a space as man and wife, before he should go to Venice to get his release from the service of the Republic. [10]
- It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. [5]
- A cold like that of eternal space settled in our bones. [9]
- Three days in that narrow space between the lines lay the dead and wounded suffering untold agonies in the moist heat. [9]
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