spacing
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distance, lead, length, remove, spread, stretch, way
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This disease needs moisture to thrive, so grow your basil plants with good spacing in a site with full sun and good air circulation next year. — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, "Yellowing basil leaves could mean downy mildew," 26 Aug. 2019 Vine spacing within the row can be 6 to 9 feet apart. — oregonlive.com, "Ask an expert: Make sure you have enough room to work around grape vines," 24 Aug. 2019 Role: Secondary playmaker off the bench, floor spacing. — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, "Analyzing the Detroit Pistons roster and predicting the depth chart," 22 July 2019 His offensive game is more polished than that of Hayes and those other giants, while his array of post moves and deft touch from 3-point range could create more spacing and openings for the Longhorns in 2019-20. — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, "As Jaxson Hayes heads to NBA, Will Baker steps in for Texas," 7 July 2019 Nearly twenty per cent of the population of New Square is under the age of five, a cohort that is especially vulnerable to measles, owing to the spacing of the regimen of shots. — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, "The Message of Measles," 26 Aug. 2019 Most notably, the 49ers will use more wide-9 defensive fronts, which creates more spacing between the linemen. — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, "Continuity concerns? 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh has a few," 13 Aug. 2019 The realignment of the off-ramp eliminates the short spacing of signals along Mathilda Avenue just north of the 237 overcrossing and will help improve traffic flow by easing back-up and lessening delays. — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, "New lane on I-680 will be converted to an express lane: Roadshow," 9 Aug. 2019 This experiment, the Cascadia Initiative, was the first ever to cover an entire tectonic plate with instruments at a spacing of roughly 50 kilometers. — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, "Earthquake risk along NW coast is not the same for all areas," 8 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spacing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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