How to use "space" in a sentence

I've managed to chip a space above and below an area of pink rock

If I do it right, the ball will stick in the space between the boulder and the canyon wall.

It was the doctors at the hospital who decided to send me to NASA - that's the space centre at Houston, in Texas.

I soon understood why! NASA sent me on a journey into space with a woman and an ape! Me, a spaceman! It was very strange.

Instead of coming down in the sea when we returned, the space ship came down in the jungle somewhere, and it was four years before the NASA people found us! But the ape and I were soon good friends

'I saw you on TV when you went up into space, Forrest,' she said.

Then you went up into space and I lost you for four years, and I think you changed

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

"Father?" he says, but there is no reply, and he can see no movement behind the grille that separates his small space from the other.

Barry nods in the dark space

"Wrong space!"

Sala and Cham left, and met three friends in another space - Niki, and two boys named Palo and Ding

It will save space and energy, they say."

And we were in the same virtual space together

where were you? Come on, I booked a space -"

As they stared at each other through two windows and through the strange sulphurous light, she had the feeling that they were making contact across an immense gulf of space and time and destiny

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

Not long after his tenth birthday, the boy had asked for more space and privacy than was provided by his original, tiny quarters

It was so huge that a DC-9 airliner could be rolled onto it without using half the space available - a feat that had been accomplished as part of a production number on a similar stage at a hotel in Reno several years ago

The sliding closet doors began to move on their runners, and Vivienne Neddler had the feeling that some awful thing was going to come out of the dark space, its eyes as red as blood and its razor-sharp teeth gnashing

It had been committed in a sheltered space within the crowd, hidden by the killer's and the victim's bodies

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

The window was constructed like a sandwich: Two one-inch-thick panes of shatterproof glass surrounded an inch-wide space filled with an inert gas

Tina stared vacantly into space.

Therefore, I will devote what space I am given here to this novel itself and to the savage, brutal, cruel, maddening, insane, inane, nonsensical, stupid, bewildering, toxic, bloodcurdling, lip-chafing, toenail-curling experience of working with a major television network to adapt this novel, and three others, as part of a program that would have been called The Dean Koontz Theater or Dean Koontz Presents or possibly Here's Dean! or even Koontzapalooza

Andre claimed to have discovered a way of transmitting solid objects through space

For one little moment it did not exist! It was only atoms travelling through space at the speed of light! A moment later, the atoms were once more gathered together in the shape of an ashtray!'

They are separated by the hugeness of space.'

There is no more Dandelo, only the atoms of a cat wandering somewhere in space.'

Suddenly it opened out into a little grassy space

But across the great emptiness of space, more intelligent minds than ours looked at this Earth with jealous eyes, and slowly and surely made their plans against us

And looking across space, with instruments and minds more powerful than we can dream of, they see, at a distance of only 56,000,000 kilometres, a morning star of hope - our own warmer planet with its green land and grey seas, its cloudy atmosphere and its growing population.

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

If I had looked up I would have seen the strangest thing that ever fell to Earth from space, but I did not

A few minutes earlier there had only been three things in my mind: the great size of the night and space and nature, my own weakness and unhappiness, and the near approach of death

Then I saw the four of them carrying the remains of the fallen one between them, now clear and then later faint through a curtain of smoke, moving away from me across a great space of river and fields

Most of the space inside their bodies was taken by the brain

It stretched far and wide and I hesitated on the edge of that large open space

I crawled into an open space in the bushes and sat down.

Far away, through a space in the trees, I saw a second Martian fighting-machine, as unmoving as the first, standing in the park near the Zoo

It was a large space, with enormous machines here and there within it, great piles of material and strange buildings

We can never know what unseen good or evil might come to us suddenly out of space

Perhaps, across the great distances of space, the Martians have watched what happened to the ones that landed on Earth and learned their lesson - and have found a safer home on the planet Venus

Before it there was a general belief that there was no life in space apart from on our tiny planet

It was written in a very small space at the bottom of the page

The entry above - recording the marriage of a man called Walter - took much more space

The entry on the next page also took a lot of space, recording a double marriage

I wondered why so little space had been given to the record of Sir Felix's marriage, but apart from that there was nothing unusual about it

I found the record of the marriage of the man called Walter, but the space at the bottom of the page was empty! On the next page was the record of the double marriage

Perhaps he could escape through the window! I broke the glass, but then the flames jumped out of the open space.

But, in 1960, a space programme was started by an American man called William Randolph Lovelace, who worked at NASA

William thought that women should also be able to go into space

The USA wanted to be the first country to put women in space, so, in 1960, William began to test women in the USA as astronauts.

She tested better than John Glenn, the man who went to the Moon! She passed her tests and was ready to go into space

After the Women in Space programme, women started to go into space, but the first woman was Russian, not American.

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman astronaut to go into space

She is still the only woman who has been on a journey into space alone

After Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, Valentina became excited

She joined the Russian space programme

Of the five women, only Valentina went into space.

The Americans did not send a woman into space until Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.