How to Use daylight between in a Sentence

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  • Where are the biggest patches of daylight between him and Trump?
    Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • So, there's a lot of demand and need for real growth, but there is no daylight between me and Adam on cuts.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The other thing to remember is that there's not a lot of daylight between the king and Mohammed bin Salman.
    CBS News, 14 Oct. 2020
  • On the issues, Mr. Cameron and Ms. Craft have little daylight between them.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • On the issues, Mr. Cameron and Ms. Craft have little daylight between them.
    Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • It should be noted that there is zero daylight between Cooke and me on this law.
    Ryan Ellis, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The best rice cooker is the one that makes the whole process so easy that there’s no daylight between your craving a bowl of plump, fragrant grains and lunch.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But there was a lot of daylight between them, both in the regular season and in the season series.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 6 May 2022
  • There will be no daylight between me and my support for Israel.
    Bryan E. Leib, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • And yet there is, there must be, a degree of daylight between cherishing someone and feeling a need to save them.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Without much daylight between Roth and himself, Green didn’t have as strong a desire to defeat him.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And on migration, other than scrapping the Rwanda plan, there’s not too much daylight between Labour and the Tories.
    Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
  • The 2-point gap is within the margin of error, so there’s little daylight between Biden and his vice president.
    Christian Paz, Vox, 2 July 2024
  • But anytime Trump didn’t agree with his advice, Pence viewed his role as vice president to show no daylight between them.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • But anytime Trump didn’t agree with his advice, Pence viewed his role as vice president to show no daylight between them.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • Patches of carpet fight for daylight between mountains of clutter in videos tagged #messyroom, which have more than 430 million views on the app.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There’s not much daylight between the two Republicans; not that much pressure was exerted to find it.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • But there may be some daylight between Kyiv and Washington as to the ultimate objective.
    Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • If raw scores for a ranking are on a scale of 0-10, but the ranking analysts divide the scores into quartiles, there might not be much daylight between a school in the top quartile and a school one quartile down.
    Abba Krieger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The prosecution has repeatedly sought to make clear the daylight between startup failure and hype, and crime.
    Sara Ashley O'Brien, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Four years later, Trump is now more than just a consummate political insider: there’s no daylight between he and the state.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But different is different, and people have a way of seeing the daylight between even perfectly nice things.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 5 Feb. 2021
  • From issue to issue, the Biden White House is preparing for the upcoming campaign by creating some daylight between its stance and the progressive left.
    Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • During that time, there was often considerable daylight between Exxon’s interests and those of the United States.
    Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2016
  • What’s striking to me about the past few months is that the Israeli government keeps making clear publicly, sometimes almost embarrassingly so, the daylight between it and the United States.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
  • This could be seen as distancing, in the traditional sense: the first lady creating some daylight between herself and the president for the sake of her own reputation.
    Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Given the daylight between the two bills, the authors and other interested lawmakers will have to come to an agreement over the differences if the legislation has a chance of becoming law.
    Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • At other points, there’s more daylight between the actions of Obama the president and Obama the executive producer.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • And in practical terms, Eskamani, who used to work at Planned Parenthood, said there was little daylight between parental notification and parental consent in the first place.
    Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
  • While there is daylight between the median justice on the Supreme Court and the most reactionary minds on lower courts, US democracy is still in extraordinary peril.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 13 May 2024

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