How to Use spatial in a Sentence

spatial

adjective
  • That sort of thing will throw my spatial awareness off a bit.
    Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • One is just a broad expanse of spatial coverage of this event.
    Thomas Peipert, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The spatial audio has been enhanced, too.
    Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In this case, a mode just describes the spatial shape of the light—where the bright and dark patches are.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
  • For more complex spatial shapes, finding an answer is not so easy.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
  • However, there’s a lurch in her switch from flat to spatial backgrounds.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The hippocampus as a spatial map.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Plus, the magnetic field is present even when other spatial cues, like light, are not.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Apple has billed them as the world's first spatial computers.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The problem is that spatial volume is defined at one moment in time.
    George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • The rookie plays with good spatial instinct and operates at his own pace with the ball.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 16 July 2024
  • The new display shines red, green, and blue laser diodes at a spatial light modulator.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2024
  • Most magical of all is what's required to build those spatial maps in James' head.
    Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • There's a second grille at the top, above the control panel, for spatial audio.
    Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • But once it's plugged in, movies and music will be delivered in full spatial audio sound.
    Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • That’s how spatial curvature works.
    Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, the team also determined the spatial position of the cells in the brain.
    Karin Schlott, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Each laser operated across six spatial modes.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Some of that spatial energy and drama would have added to this exhibit.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • While the mice were running along the track, brain cells that control spatial encoding were firing.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • But the satellites’ coarse spatial resolution meant rivers and small eddies were out of reach.
    Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Sight, sound, scent, touch, movement, taste, and spatial awareness all play a role in the agency’s creative process.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • The taste of banana has now blasted into the fourth spatial dimension.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Maneuvering through parts of the house is a challenge, among many things, of spatial awareness.
    Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
  • That’s where world models and spatial intelligence come in.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Set things up just right and at large spatial scales, the scalar field interacts only with itself and acts like dark matter.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And oftentimes, the spatial effect can be quite subtle.
    ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The real play is owning every spatial workload on the planet.
    Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This area of the brain is responsible for spatial memory and stores mental maps of the rat’s world.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • That is the simple version of spatial memory.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'spatial.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: