SPARE in a Sentence
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245 example sentences for SPARE, such as:
1. I did it to spare your trouble.
2. I have money enough and to spare.
3. Better spare at brim than at bottom.
4. Bring a towel and some spare clothes.
5. I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
2. I have money enough and to spare.
3. Better spare at brim than at bottom.
4. Bring a towel and some spare clothes.
5. I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
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Meanings and Examples of SPARE
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spare
v. save or relieve from an experience or action
n. an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I have money enough and to spare.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2 Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
3 The room was tidy as a pin, not slept in for months, a spare room.
4 But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse.
5 The signal was given and the windlass stopped, with abundant rope to spare.
6 I am not one of those that spare their own trouble; and Nanny shall fetch her, however it may put me to inconvenience to have my chief counsellor away for three days.
7 The spare rooms at the Parsonage had never been wanted, but the absolute necessity of a spare room for a friend was now never forgotten.
8 Your mother is quite anxious about it, but cannot very well spare time to sit down herself, because of her fringe.
9 Dr. Grant, professing an indisposition, for which he had little credit with his fair sister-in-law, could not spare his wife.
10 I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go.
11 I could very ill spare the time, and you might have saved me the trouble, if you would only have been so good as to let us know you were going out.
12 It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
13 Then, falling upon his knees, he prayed Heaven to spare him from such deeds; and rather to will that he should die at once, than be reserved for crimes, so fearful and appalling.
14 Harry,' said Mrs. Maylie, 'it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
15 'Then spare my life for the love of Heaven, as I spared yours,' rejoined the girl, clinging to him.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man.
2 Better spare at brim than at bottom.
3 I did it to spare your trouble.
4 Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
5 Do it in a spare moment at the weekend or whenever - it really doesn't matter.
6 He who spends more than he should, shall not have to spare when he would.
7 Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
8 Bring a towel and some spare clothes.
9 The Liberal candidate romped in with thousands of votes to spare.
10 We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time.
11 We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.
12 I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
13 One of the hazards of living in those days will include getting conked by spare rocket parts falling from the sky.
14 I lead a very busy life, so spare time is a very precious commodity to me.
15 She likes to listen to music in her spare time.