single-space
Americanverb (used with object)
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single-spaces,
present (3rd person singular)
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single-spaced,
past participle, past
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single-spacing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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single-spaces,
present (3rd person singular)
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single-spaced,
past participle, past
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single-spacing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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single-spacesimple
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single-spacessimple
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have single-spacedperfect
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has single-spacedperfect
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am single-spacingprogressive
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are single-spacingprogressive
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is single-spacingprogressive
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have been single-spacingperfect progressive
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has been single-spacingperfect progressive
Past
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single-spacedsimple
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had single-spacedperfect
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was single-spacingprogressive
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were single-spacingprogressive
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had been single-spacingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of single-space
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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“Two days later, I had 30 single-space pages of complete narrative information,” he says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2016
“The industry is moving away from a single-space to a multi-space environment,” Evian said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2016
Since no single-space parking meters exist anymore in Manhattan, Ms. Sadik-Khan said, the advice is now obsolete.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013
Even after Manhattan is made meterless, about 43,000 single-space meters will live on for a year or so in the other boroughs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2011
So I put the whole list into seven-point type, single-space it, format it into six columns, and print it out.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
The resolution stretches across four single-spaced pages of the Tuesday meeting agenda — a complex, detailed approach to a vexing issue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
But included in my mother’s files I found an eight-page single-spaced letter that Howie had written to someone else — a document he had not included in the original packet he sent me.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
And it does all this in a bill that is 10 single-spaced pages long, nearly one page of which is legislative findings, not actual law.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2023
The memo was two pages, single-spaced, and the silence stretched for what seemed an excruciating length.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
Wyche had been working on that: she’d written a meticulously detailed three-page, single-spaced letter to William Brody, then president of Johns Hopkins.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
For years I corrected others about their silly single-spacing.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2014
The joker in it, to this reporter, was that composing-room foremen for the past 20 years have berated me for single-spacing my typewritten copy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his typewritten manuscript a writer may indicate this difference in size of type by single-spacing the lines of the quotation.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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