noun
definition
A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
preposition
definition
In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.)
example
I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars.
definition
Done together or reciprocally.
example
conversation between friends
definition
Shared in confidence.
example
Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy. Let's keep this between ourselves.
definition
In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).
example
He's between jobs right now. The shuttle runs between the town and the airport.
definition
Combined (by effort or ownership).
example
Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.
definition
One of (representing a choice).
example
Some colour-blind people can't distinguish between red and green.
Examples of between in a Sentence
People passing between them were a blur.
That is the only difference between them.
There were sparks between them from the start.
He was a good-looking intern, but there simply wasn't a spark between them.
When it came back to her face, a slow smile erased the creases between his brows.
Now you shall judge between us.
Put your head down between your knees.
Don't let it come between us.
The opening to the cave was only a narrow hole between two rocks.
She moved between Adrienne and Brandon, and put an arm around each of their shoulders.
Silence fell between them and then he finally spoke.
As he turned, the lights of a silent ambulance bounced across the long stretch of pasture between the highway and the mangled car.
There was already a sizable gap between her wagon and the one in front of her.
She looked between them.
There are no mountains between the Atlantic Ocean and the St. Lawrence river.
There was a fine line between being frugal and being a miser.
Nothing was truly resolved except possibly the hostility between them.
Señor Medena's attention shifted back and forth between Dulce and Alex, but neither offered any explanation.
Don't make me choose between you and my mother, Adrienne.
It was made between us.
Brandon gave the car more gas and it straightened up, darting between the two vehicles.
Between the hollows the villages of Bezubova and Zakharino showed in the distance.
He could see the clear starry sky between the dark roofs of two penthouses.
If there had been discord between her parents, she had never seen any indication.
Was Sarah encouraging a relationship between them?
I let our stupid house rules stand between us for a long time, but I was the one who finally broke them.
This is between you and Sarah.
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind--I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.
And at your age what secrets can there be between Natasha and Boris, or between you two?
I read them in the intervals between study and play with an ever-deepening sense of pleasure.
Lisa glanced at Yancey, who silently divided his attention between Connie and Lisa.
Tonight he divided his attention between the knife and her face - no doubt waiting for her to broach the subject.
His tongue slid between them.
Sweetheart, let's not let this come between us.
What isn't going on between you two?
Still, by refusing to go up there with Brandon, she was standing between him and his parents.
The quiet between them felt awkward.
There's sure no love lost between you two.
Because human ability is distributed unevenly and technology multiplies ability of the talented, the spread between the rich and poor will rise more and more.
Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
Though there is less than half an inch between the points--a space which represents sixty minutes--Miss Keller tells the time almost exactly.
Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.
This is between you and me, not the entire neighborhood.
Yancey expertly caught the head of the serpent between the forks of a stick and bent over to pick it up.
Lisa had time between when Howard left and Giddon arrived to call the police, but she didn't.
Something between this Lydia and Fitzgerald?
Aside from the greeting, there was no warmth between them at all.
Whatever issue is between you two, it.s too personal for him to forget, and he takes it out on me when you.re not around, she said.
Between 1856 and 1863, he bred 29,000 pea plants.
I think "no" and "yes," conveyed by a shake or a nod of my head, have become facts as apparent to her as hot and cold or as the difference between pain and pleasure.