"make a gap" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to create an empty space or opening in something. Example: "You need to make a gap between the two paragraphs in your essay to make it easier to read."
So I tried to do the same to Dathan, make a gap and then hold it".
The police would take off their gas masks and make a gap in their barricades for the protesters to walk through before they were arrested.
The 8th Army's attack on the Mareth Line was launched on the night of March 20 , 1943 with a frontal blow that was intended to make a gap through which the armoured divisions could pour.
Hinkel says that it was the local district that required him to make a gap in the East Side Gallery to create street access to a planned pedestrian bridge.
When sales figures were not as expected, instead of laying off employees to make a gap in the deficit, Iwata took the blame, and for this he showed that he was a CEO that fundamentally disagreed with the common perception of what CEO's should do in times of crisis.
When cells were confluent, 'scratch' wounds were created by scraping confluent cell monolayers with a sterile pipette tip to make a gap.
Have you made a gap year financially profitable?
With one hand I made a gap for the plate at the table, which was piled high with library books.
Stegmann supplied the bonus when a penalty to touch and a short drive from George Robson's catch made a gap at the corner poorly defended by Taku Ngwenya.
There, they made a gap in the rooftop razor wire, tied together a makeshift rope, using their linens and rappelled down to the street, four storeys below.
"On command, the line makes a gap in the center and the bikes ride through this gap". In the second, officers focus on "lining the bikes, front wheel to rear wheel, across the area to be blocked or protected".
