Used in a Sentence

spans

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spans.

Editorial note

Any time now a collection of therapies could be developed to add a decade or two to life spans.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of spans gathered in one view.

noun

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.

noun

A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

noun

wingspan of a plane or bird

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spans.

noun

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.

noun

A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

noun

wingspan of a plane or bird

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Any time now a collection of therapies could be developed to add a decade or two to life spans.

2

Context: You will be working on our deployment pipline and platform infrastructure which spans multiple datacenters.

3

Particularly for a technology whose risk tail spans not years, decades, or even centuries, but millennia.

4

This seems to me a little like saying that workers who take 10min breaks from work all have shorter life spans.

5

The evidence spans multiple sites' templates as well as the advertising code.

6

I'm probably already older than the life spans of most of humanity in recorded history.

7

Would we even be able to detect an organism whose life spans more than ten thousand years, and what about a million?

8

The code we write spans several domains which makes for intellectually stimulating days.

9

Then we need to devote actual money to pay students to spend time teaching laypeople or varied ages/economic backgrounds/attention spans how to send secure messages.

10

[eyeroll] Just because your prejudice spans a class direction upward doesn't stop it being xenophobic.

11

Companies can pick which funds they want in their 401k plan, although most choose a standard lineup of Vanguard index funds that spans across all the major asset classes and risk categories.

12

We've built a platform that spans across 4 sports with thousands of paying users and club organizations, we have a real fun team, are growing quickly and always trying new technologies.

Quote examples

1

The example given was: "it spans multiple documents, and you want a sound to play in reaction to some external, asynchronous event if any of your documents are open."

2

One of my biggest gripes is that searches often return individual "songs", whereas for classical music you're generally looking for something that spans multiple tracks (and so what to see more context in the search output).

3

All the other shows didn't waste much time on modern nations because those were something mankind had outgrown: it wasn't even "us humans" anymore, the Federation spanned different species just like the UN today spans different nations.

4

The bright red bridge spans 90 meters and was designed by Adriaan Geuze of the architectural firm West 8" Coincidentally, Amsterdam can be considered the birthplace of Python, where Guido used to work at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use spans in a sentence?

Any time now a collection of therapies could be developed to add a decade or two to life spans.

What does spans mean?

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.

What part of speech is spans?

spans is commonly used as noun.