How to Use between in a Sentence

between

1 of 2 preposition

• The ball rolled between the desk and the wall.
• There are fences between all the houses.
• If you want to lose weight, you shouldn't eat between meals.
• Between bites of food, they talked to their teacher.
• The office has two desks with a table between them.
• They put up a fence between their house and their neighbor's house.
• He stood between his mother and his father.
• The two days between Monday and Thursday are Tuesday and Wednesday.
• We should arrive between 9 and 10 o'clock.
• But the chances have been few and far between for both sides.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 June 2026
• This marks the first meeting between these two teams.
  — Jason Stromberg, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
• She is torn between being a good mother and a wife.
  — Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
• The wait time can fall anywhere between six minutes and six hours.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
• Is there a difference between a frost and a freeze?
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• The gap between the spenders and the nonspenders seems to be widening.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
• As is that line between sci-fi and fantasy.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• My only shot was through a hole the size of a business card between some limbs.
  — Jack Atcheson Sr. As Told To Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
• Is there a link between literary forgery and art forgery?
  — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
• Yet there is a clear mismatch between these social norms and the law – for now.
  — Tanya D. Marsh, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
• Most rebuilds take between 18 months and two years.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
• At times, yes, when a football match breaks out between all of those stoppages.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• Now, of course, there could be other things that happened between you and your son.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2026
• Pretti moves between the agent and the woman.
  — Thomas Bordeaux, CNN Money, 25 Jan. 2026
• The man stood there, his face wreathed in smoke from the cigarette between his lips.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• It will be held between June 23 and 25.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
• The store will hire between 6-10 people to work at the store.
  — The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
• Much like humans, our pets may rotate between being too hot and too cold.
  — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
• Divide the snapper between two dinner plates and spoon the sauce on top.
  — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
• Patrons can choose between six spice levels.
  — Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
• The weeks between trips were enjoyable again.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025

between

2 of 2 adverb

• The office has two desks with a table between.
• Food carts are few and far between, and the lines at the ones that are open are very long.
  — Anna Lane, USA TODAY, 19 May 2021
• Good goal-scoring chances were few and far between in the first half for either side.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2021
• In ballet, firsts have tended to be few and far between, but not so these last few years.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2020
• Dyson sales are few and far between, save for the spoilage we get served ahead of the holidays.
  — Lily Wohlner, Allure, 29 Nov. 2025
• These new soft data roles cannot be few and far between in the industry.
  — Elena Maris, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
• Those who were wavering were few and far between, and not easy to persuade.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• Any of those are few and far between, with deep-blue skies dominating.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• Here, when the tide is right and swimmers are few and far between, the beach fishermen come out.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• In most states, stations are few and far between, and vast parts of rural areas have none at all.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• Her two teenage children each cook one night a week and her husband and takeout fill in the days between.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• The film comes at a time when rom-coms are few and far between, with the genre not often greenlit by studios.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
• Moments of true novelty were few and far between, and not any more pleasant.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021
• Though few and far between, there were some risk-takers in the early Met Gala days.
  — Christian Allair, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2021
• First dates had been few and far between, and the lack of many second dates often left me doubting myself once more.
  — Alvaro Aragon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• Fast times and personal bests were few and far between on a blustery day at Fortress Obetz.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2022
• The picks weren’t always so few and far between from Alabama colleges.
  — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2020
• And there's no real boundary between, what's your work side of the couch and what's your TV side of the couch?
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2020
• For a narrative built on the push and pull between two women, the imbalance is hard to ignore.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• But such plays are few and far between, and the interceptions by Pitre were really bad.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• As for fintech founders, females are few and far between, accounting for just a mere seven percent.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Target has been few and far between, along with GameStop for taking orders online.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 25 Nov. 2020
• In 2019, those moments were so few and far between, and so many people in this fan base seem to forget that.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2020
• There's also been chatter about how Black quarterbacks, who are few and far between, are treated in the league.
  — Jasmine Grant, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
• Which means, even when other ingredients are few and far between, homemade garlic butter can swoop in and save the day.
  — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2022
• Postseason scuffles are few and far between in the postseason, but who knows what to expect in a year where no one has known what to expect?
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• Chances were few and far between in the second half as players still looked to be kicking off the rust after a long period away from the action.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 19 June 2020
• The weather was beautiful, drinks were flowing and masks were few and far between, mostly seen in the form of straps peeking out of jacket pockets.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
• While his local appearances are few and far between, Plattner is in constant contact with the team’s front office.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2022
• The trial that the panelists are now working toward has to account for the fact that participants are so few and far between, and may not have long to live.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 17 July 2021