How to Use spacer in a Sentence

spacer

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  • Screw a ½-inch plywood spacer to the back of the top shelf to keep the shelves from touching the wall.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The trays rest on a spacer glued inside the box made out of the same stock as the tray sides.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The membrane sheet in the middle serves as a spacer and has a hole for each of the keys.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Clamp the spacer blocks between the pieces of angle iron.
    — Jean Levasseur, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then use a spacer to mark the outer foam cutline 1 1⁄2 in.
    — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The career marksman is a floor spacer who can start in spots or come off the bench.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2018
  • Screw in spacers with 1-1/4-inch screws to the bottoms of the DIY mailboxes.
    — Lucy Fitzgerald, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Once the axle is pressed in, remove the spacer tool and make sure there is a suitable gap between the body and wheel.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • After nailing each slat to its top rail, move the spacer down to the bottom rail [11] and nail it in place.
    — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Put one spacer block at each end of the metal bars, resting on the inside lip.
    — Jean Levasseur, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Wedge a stick or some sort of spacer behind the top of the camera and shoot at a downward angle.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
  • On the floor with Garland and Mitchell, LeVert needs to be a spot shooter and spacer, playing off the ball.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Mitchell will play off the ball, serving as a catch-and-shoot threat and floor spacer, the kind of high-volume threat the Cavs have been missing.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Bulls use Vucevic in pick-and-pops and as a straight-up floor spacer at times, as well as a playmaking hub in the middle of the court.
    — Jason Patt, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • James and Thompson with spacers and shooters is what the Cavs leaned on heavily the past few years.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • An elite floor-spacer in his own right, Cook is a career 41.8% shooter from 3-point range.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
  • The Celtics add a big with potential as a floor-spacer who could open things up for their corps of rim slashers.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Unlike the repeat sequences, each of the spacers had a unique sequence.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2015
  • Bridges is a credible floor-spacer who rated out as the No.
    — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • That’s because the loungewear is made with soft spacer fabric that offers four-way stretch.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • With the floating styles, framers use spacers to create distance between the mat, the artwork and the frame itself.
    — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Make the center divider and handle out of 3/4-inch plywood and the spacer strip out of 1/4-inch plywood.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The team was at its best in the regular season when Mitchell and Allen were healthy and running high pick-and-rolls with floor spacers around them.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
  • The store will add spacers to help with social distancing if more people start to shop.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 20 May 2020
  • To rip the two remaining sides, place a 1⁄4-in.-thick spacer between the positioning strip and the blank [2].
    — Thomas Klenck, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The researchers suspect a gold spiral would have been strung between each disc as a spacer.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • New mounts for the rear springs had to be fabricated, as did three-inch spacers to mount the 15-inch-wide American Track Truck tracks to the rear.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • On the other side of the ball, Payton is answering the question of whether or not he can be trusted as a floor-spacer.
    — Shane Young, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The skis themselves, 12 inches wide and 56 inches long, were simply mounted to the front hubs with some spacers.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Johnson was used as a screener and roller, three-point spacer and also worked the baseline as a cutter.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024

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