Spare

//spɛə(ɹ)//

"Spare" in a Sentence (44 examples)

We have three spare rooms, none of which can be used.

Can you spare me a few minutes of your valuable time?

I have a spare key to my house hidden outside.

We gathered all the books together and put them in the spare room.

Yuriko arranges flowers in her spare time.

By the way, do you have any spare batteries?

By the way, did you have any spare time to go sightseeing while you were there?

I spend what time I can spare reading.

Can you spare a minute? I'd like to discuss something of importance to both of us.

Can you spare me a few minutes?

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I have no spare time.

if that no spare cloths he had to give

a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre

We could rent out the spare room.

Shepard: I take it this is your first time here? Wrex: Meant to tell you Shepard. Earth reminds me of home. Guess you'll be needing a new planet too. That's okay. Tuchanka's got room to spare and a guard dog named Kalros.

As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

a spare diet

Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.

I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare.

He was spare, […]but discreet of speech.

Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod.

O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.

When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.

The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.

“That'll drive him spare.”

My grandfather (unaware that he was using antique terms) would often say ruefully that I would drive him spare. The idea was that my behaviour would so dement him as to drive him berserk.

men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses

Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare:

an heir and a spare

The whole Heir versus Spare thing? Wasn't it a bit late for that tired childhood dynamic?

I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.

Kill me, if you please, or spare me.

Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.

In April of 2009, however, the disease was found to suddenly no longer be appearing in newly-hatched chickens, and, upon review, it was discovered that Dr. Wildcat had modified 6002 without authorization, removing the disease from the genome. She's detained and questioned by Muller, and, even though she tries to lie that she didn't do anything, they have footage of her ascending the tree on her own. Muller tells her that she can't just take it upon herself to decide what's best, as who knows what would've happened if she had made a mistake. She proceeds to cuss him out, and he gives her a choice, telling her that if she apologizes now, he'll put in a good word for her with the O5 Council, which might spare her. She's silent for a moment, but does end up apologizing.

I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care.

Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare

He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, from assaults, and the naturall refreshing of his body, be bestowed in praier and seruing of God

Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.

Poor Jack, farewell! / I could have better spared a better man

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

At Southall, we believe, it has been difficult to spare men from an understaffed motive power establishment to undergo non revenue-earning training on the diesel multiple-units, because crews are scarce for trip freight working.

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