How to Use dead space in a Sentence

dead space

noun
  • There’s way too much dead space.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But the episodes are painfully overlong and full of dead space.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Leaving a bit of dead space on your shelves is fine, Smith says.
    — Sarah Lyon, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the shortage of low dead space syringes threatens that momentum.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 21 Feb. 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
  • Maximize space with a bookshelf built for taking advantage of a room’s dead space.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • By using special syringes with a smaller dead space, health officials say, less vaccine goes to waste.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • Build height and an organic shape with tall foxglove stems, and fill in dead space with snapdragons in pretty pinks and oranges.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The design solution is to create a niche, or make an existing dead space more functional.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
  • In a normal, 2D portrait app, the center of the status bar is usually dead space.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Working around all that dead space is going to make for some interesting software design decisions.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
  • 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
  • In between those two layers is dead space designed to minimize heat or cold transfer from the inner layer to the outer layer.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The air will become more and more infected, toxic, while asphyxiating forms of oppression have drawn us into dead space.
    — Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The regenerative braking has smooth engagement, but some systems can feel abrupt, like stepping on an on-off switch, with some dead space before getting grip.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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

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