How to split one string into multiple strings separated by at least one space in bash shell?

Did you try just passing the string variable to a for loop? Bash, for one, will split on whitespace automatically.

sentence="This is   a sentence."
for word in $sentence
do
    echo $word
done

This
is
a
sentence.

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