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Example sentences for: spans

How can you use “spans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
Less than a century after Johnson, the geologist Sir Charles Lyell showed that today's Earth could have been sculpted by everyday erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes acting in the past over immense spans of time.
On the far side of the bridge that spans the entrance to Harrington Sound is the Bermuda Aquarium, Natural History Museum, and Zoo (bus routes #3, #10, and #11).
To ease the transition, I thought it might be fitting to pay tribute to someone whose career spans these two worlds.
This protected region spans only the wild-type dmsA DNA sequences but not the adjacent foreign DNA sequences.