Span can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| span - To traverse the distance between. | ||
| span - To cover or extend over an area or time period. | ||
| span - To generate an entire space by means of linear combination s. | ||
| span - To be matched, as horses. | ||
Noun |
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| span - the distance or interval between two points | ||
| span - the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour" | ||
| span - a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches) | ||
| span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | ||
| span - two items of the same kind | ||
| span - the act of sitting or standing astride |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | noun | The job was finished in the span of an hour. | |
| 2. | noun | The bridge has a span of 100 meters. | |
| 3. | noun | Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before. | |
| 4. | noun | Seventy or eighty years is the normal span of a man's life. | |
| 5. | noun | According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing. | |
| 6. | noun | What is the average life span in Japan? | |
| 7. | noun | The average life span of the Japanese has lengthened to a great extent. | |
| 8. | noun | There were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span. | |
| 9. | noun | The present perfect expresses the long span from past to present. | |
| 10. | noun | My son's short attention span is causing him problems at school. | |
| 11. | noun | I wonder what the normal life span of a cockroach is and if they ever die of old age. | |
| 12. | noun | "You have the attention span of a chicken." "Chickens are delicious." "My point exactly." | |
| 13. | noun | The life span of a butterfly is short. | |
| 14. | noun | Tom has a short attention span. | |
| 15. | noun | He has a short attention span. | |
| 16. | verb | A pair of military pilots embarked on China's second manned space flight early today, hurtling into orbit on a test mission that could span five days. | |
| 17. | verb | The Russo-Turkish wars span about four centuries of history, conflicts and diplomatic setbacks. | |
| 18. | verb | Before pouring cement mixture into forms for a foundation, the work crew securely place an armature of steel bars at a predetermined spacing in order to reinforce the finished building's hardened concrete. If a piece of steel is not long enough to span the required distance, the workers will overlap two pieces and tie them together to form a strong splice. | |
| 19. | verb | Plenty of railways lines span the country. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| The job was finished in the span of an hour. |
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| The bridge has a span of 100 meters. | |
| Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before. | |
| Seventy or eighty years is the normal span of a man's life. | |
| According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing. | |
| What is the average life span in Japan? | |
| The average life span of the Japanese has lengthened to a great extent. | |
| There were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span. | |
| The present perfect expresses the long span from past to present. | |
| My son's short attention span is causing him problems at school. | |
| I wonder what the normal life span of a cockroach is and if they ever die of old age. | |
| "You have the attention span of a chicken." "Chickens are delicious." "My point exactly." | |
| The life span of a butterfly is short. | |
| Tom has a short attention span. | |
| He has a short attention span. | |
| verb | |
| A pair of military pilots embarked on China's second manned space flight early today, hurtling into orbit on a test mission that could span five days. |
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| The Russo-Turkish wars span about four centuries of history, conflicts and diplomatic setbacks. | |
| Before pouring cement mixture into forms for a foundation, the work crew securely place an armature of steel bars at a predetermined spacing in order to reinforce the finished building's hardened concrete. If a piece of steel is not long enough to span the required distance, the workers will overlap two pieces and tie them together to form a strong splice. | |
| Plenty of railways lines span the country. | |