How to Use dead space in a Sentence

dead space

noun

• Both phones have a screen that wraps around the sides and meet in the back, where there is a strip of dead space.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
• Leaving a bit of dead space on your shelves is fine, Smith says.
  — Sarah Lyon, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• Studio DB placed it beneath two prints and across from a pair of stylish floor lamps to make the dead space come alive.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 29 June 2022
• Saving that amount on the cap with only $1.66 million in dead space was too good to pass up.
  — cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
• And then just getting rid of this dead space in the front and to the left that doesn't really add anything to the story.
  — Jonathan Peltz, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
• Shallow breath is breathing into dead space—which is not a metaphor.
  — Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2021
• The curved back edge cradles hydration reservoirs, so there’s no dead space in your bag.
  — Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2021
• In a normal, 2D portrait app, the center of the status bar is usually dead space.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
• This is because phone makers are getting better at shrinking the bezels, the dead space that surrounds a screen.
  — Tj Donegan, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
• Folia Collective often chooses to tape plants down to the box to keep them in one spot, filling the dead space in the rest of the box to prevent any shifting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• There's nothing weird in the layout; all of the keys are where they're supposed to be, about the right size, with a nice amount of dead space in between them and a decent travel distance.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
• But the shortage of low dead space syringes threatens that momentum.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2021
• The idea is to try to make every space a learning and teaching opportunity and not have dead spaces in the building.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2018
• But the furry exterior has lots of dead space, too, trapping heat like a champ when layered under a shell.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile, the city has spent at least $15 million to assemble the land, creating acres of dead space in one of the city’s oldest Black neighborhoods.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2023
• Maximize space with a bookshelf built for taking advantage of a room’s dead space.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2023
• Your accuracy has to be high because in a reverberant space, the room will cover up a certain amount of sins, but in a dead space that's just not the case.
  — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2023
• The inner screen doesn't have a hole in the display for the camera and instead opts for the old-school layout of shrinking the screen to make room for a camera above the screen and then extending that dead space across the top of the phone.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2023
• The biggest has been the lack of mound visits—which removes some dead space for fans, at the cost of a chance for a struggling pitcher to get a breather, or a quick pep talk, or a moment to refocus.
  — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 25 July 2019
• His vision was locked on dead space, Slesicki testified.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• By using special syringes with a smaller dead space, health officials say, less vaccine goes to waste.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• The design solution is to create a niche, or make an existing dead space more functional.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
• Rather than wrap around the dead space, the operating system just slaps the status items into the menu with no consideration to the big black block covering that same space.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Eliminate dead space toward the bottom of an attic closet by adding narrow shelves for shoes or a multi-level shoe rack.
  — Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• Like the sea monsters inhabiting the unknown sections of medieval maps, he — like Long — had condemned the entire region, the dead space not even worthy of a second look.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• Sixteen books sit on little horizontal wooden supports in the dead spaces of the puzzle.
  — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• They were drawn afresh as the relevant molecules drifted back into the dead space and interacted with each other once again.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2010
• While iPhone's display dead space is due to it housing a bunch of FaceID sensors, there's no new hardware here (that will take a bit longer to copy), just a normal front-facing camera that turns into a giant pill.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
• Base cabinets and open shelves for storage and display wrap an awkward wall, taking advantage of what could have easily been dead space.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Assembly required Maximize space with a bookshelf built for taking advantage of a room’s dead space.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024