Inline underlined spaces are getting out of margins

Question

When trying to use underlined blank spaces for a questionary inside a book, I'm getting the underline out of document margings. Does anyone knows how to make underline command respect the document margins?

Code:

\documentclass[11pt]{elegantbook}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{soul}
% Underlined spaces command
\newcommand{\uline}[1]{\underline{\hspace{#1}}}

\title{Document Title}
\subtitle{Subtitle}


\begin{document}

\maketitle

\frontmatter

\mainmatter

\chapter*{Introduction}

\Large

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Test text test text test text test text. Test text test text test text test text test text. Test text test text test text test text. Test text test text test text test text test text.
  \item Test text \uline{4cm} test \uline{4cm} test text test text test text test text.
  % The following line is the one that is not respecting margins
  \item Test \uline{4cm} test text test text test text test text \uline{5cm} test text test text test text.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Output:

Does this answer your question? Why does underlined text not get wrapped once it hits the end of a line ? — José Carlos Santos, Feb 25 '20 at 06:58
It is not good idea break short places for answers, but if you want this, forget about using \hspace or any other type of box. Think that latex boxes are like characters, unbreakables. But some like \ul{~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~} is easy to write, highly breakable ... and even look more like the final output. — Fran, Feb 25 '20 at 08:36
@JoséCarlosSantos, no, that was not answering my question. but thanks. — obedmr, Feb 25 '20 at 16:21
@Fran, I really appreciate the comments, those really helped me. I went with the \ul{~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~} option, easy to write and text doesn't get too hurt with the \linebreak — obedmr, Feb 25 '20 at 16:23

Inline underlined spaces are getting out of margins

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