space out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To position (objects, people, time slots, etc.) at regular intervals with a calculated space between them.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "She spaced out the yoga mats as much as she could while leaving room for some walkways."
- "She spaced out her scheduled events as much as she could while leaving time for question-and-answer sessions."
- "Dion's first Las Vegas residency […] went on from 2003 to 2007, with a total of 714 shows […] [Her] second residency was more spaced out, with 427 shows. This allowed Dion to tour internationally during the pockets of time when she wasn't performing in Vegas."
- "She spaced out when the speaker started droning about the fine-print details of convertible debentures."
- "In that futility and rage, we're seeing incredible alcohol abuse, incredible drug abuse, compulsive sexuality. Just basically spacing out with not as much attention to political values, educational values, feeling connected to society in any kind of way. Sometimes I go to the bars and see these kids and think about the meaninglessness and the emptiness that they'll be feeling five or six years down the road when they're tired of partying."
- "Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour."