Spans [noun]
Definition of Spans:
distance, duration
Synonyms of Spans:
● Term
● Spell
● Space
● Stretch
● Interval
● Period
● Length
● Time
● Reach
● Amount
● Spread
● Extent
● Compass
● Measure
Sentence/Example of Spans:
The three spans of this bridge are together nearly 1500 feet long.
Then from the floor I measured eight spans in a line across the mark.
Two women met on the narrow rope bridge which spans the creek.
It is back of the town near a little bridge that spans a mangrove swamp.
The bridge has four spans,—two of 460 feet over the water, and two of 230 feet over the land.
He required eight spans for his girdle, besides what hung loose.
Joseph works on it for two years and makes it two spans too short.
He spans the whole period of Katanga development for he first arrived in 1909.
The viaducts and bridges were of timber, with spans of about 16 feet.
It spans the frontier of Leon and Asturias, the boundary of the realms of cloud and sun.