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Example Sentences
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That was the span of Route 66 when highway officials stitched it together to link Chicago, Los Angeles and countless cities and towns in between.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
In a span of just three hours around midnight Monday, Trump posted over 50 times, almost exclusively re-sharing videos and screenshots from supporters' accounts, plus AI-created memes.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
That time span, which felt like an age, became the moment that has the capacity to alter the immediate course of history for Arsenal and West Ham United.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Narratives run for hundreds or even thousands of episodes and can span TV, movies and comic books.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
It was another pigeon, this one with two healthy feet and a noticeably shorter attention span.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing span
President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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Civil Engineering
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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