How to Use in/within the space of in a Sentence

in/within the space of

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• The boat fills and submerges in the space of one constant hour [and] the sailor plays the pipe . . .
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2020
• Please, don’t leave them hanging in the space of the unknown.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 2 Apr. 2024
• Their deaths, which took place in the space of a year and a half, were a shock and a warning.
  — Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, Kristin Van Ogtrop, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• And that all happens in the space of, like, five seconds.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• This was the third recall announced by Trader Joe’s in the space of a week.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 29 July 2023
• Tellingly, Biden has now tried to have this issue both ways in the space of six months.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 June 2024
• Tesla has now added $100 billion in market cap in the space of the past two days.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 July 2024
• That figure has fallen to 13% in the space of five years, Gopinath pointed out in her speech for the IMF.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
• There are still limits to what Strange New Worlds can do within the space of so few episodes.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
• For all of these artists to be releasing music in the space of a year, and for most of it to be so good, that’s rare.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 July 2024
• And in the space of those four walls was my wife and my brother, my kids and my friends, all on rotation.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
• And in the space of about five seconds and in a distance of about five yards her whole self began to slide sideways.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The music veers from R&B to pop to prog-rock in the space of four minutes as the song’s tone becomes more serious.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• Within the space of a few hours, customers come in from Brazil, Belgium, Canada and France.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• An eclectic bunch of petite blooms evokes the feeling of an English garden—all in the space of a few feet.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
• These brainchildren live in the space of abstract ideas, not in real space.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2021
• John Textor acquired four soccer clubs in four countries in the space of two years.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• For me, the most powerful position to be in is in the space of mutual need.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The entire groundwork for Morris’ course shifts even just in the space of one semester.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
• His team at least got the better of its rival from Yorkshire when meeting for a second time in the space of four days.
  — James Robson, ajc, 12 Feb. 2023
• In Florence today, the Museo degli Innocenti stands in the space of the city’s former foundling home.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• The characters live on the page rather than in the space of the action; the actors shrink to the confines of the frame rather than expanding to inhabit the world.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 June 2024
• Instead, the league should start Round One a week later and play all three games (if necessary) in the space of two weekends.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The minister said nine fires had been set in the space of four hours Thursday morning in the area of Avlona, in the northern foothills of Mount Parnitha.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• One staffer says they were laid off right before the Gap deal was announced, only to be offered their job back five times in the space of a few weeks.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• Two major championships seemingly his for the asking in the space of a month.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• But in the space of about 10 minutes, all their efforts crumbled during a 3-0 defeat.
  — Steven Goff, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Which is not to say that generations’ worth of psychic wounds are healed in the space of 10 episodes of television.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 27 June 2024
• And then in the space of about 45 seconds, the deputies took a series of actions that left Massey lying in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor and led to murder charges against one of the deputies, Sean Grayson.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024