Definition of white space
: the areas of a page without print or pictures
Examples of white space in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The layout is clean, and there is lots of white space for my sticky notes and doodles.
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Patia Braithwaite, SELF, "How This Day Designer Planner Helps Me Feel Like a Real Person," 20 Oct. 2020 It’s not a picture book; the company’s books deliver their messages through creative use of type and white space.
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oregonlive, "Meet A Kids Book About, a Portland publisher that aims to help families talk about challenging topics," 13 Oct. 2020 Given that tennis is historically, and currently, a largely white space, Osaka championing equality and reform in such an upfront manner is especially important and powerful.
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Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, "Naomi Osaka’s Post-Match Hairstyle Is More Important Than You Think," 14 Sep. 2020 Models in utilitarian black combat gear, with chains and visors, push a tray of surgeon's tools through a sanitized white space to unnerving Hitchcockian music.
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Thomas Adamson, Star Tribune, "Hybrid Paris Fashion Week, both physical and digital, begins," 29 Sep. 2020 One of my clips, retrieved from my paper's library as a photocopy, had a word handwritten atop it in the middle of a big white space.
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The Washington Post, "Chatological Humor with Gene Weingarten," 18 Aug. 2020 The writing is stream of consciousness and has the trappings of a narrative poem — lots of white space and italics, can’t recall seeing a period in the entirety of the novel — and melds the character’s exterior and interior worlds.
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Nneka Mcguire, Washington Post, "‘Little Scratch’ drops readers into the reality of a distressed mind," 18 Aug. 2020 The discussion shone a light on the entertainment world's history of singling out certain Black actresses as examples of diversity in an otherwise wholly-white space while simultaneously restricting their opportunities.
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Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, "This Old Video Of Viola Davis Is Going Viral For All The Right Reasons," 2 July 2020 So fill that white space with other meaningful stuff.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN, "Summer internships have dried up because of the pandemic. Here's how to get ahead without one," 24 Apr. 2020
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