Sparing

//ˈspɛəɹɪŋ//

"Sparing" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Would you mind sparing me thirty minutes of the day?

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Who wants to travel far has to move his tonsure by sparing his mount.

Who wants to travel far moves his carcass while sparing his mount.

What people get wrong about the story of Abraham being asked to sacrifice Isaac, is that they were surrounded by peoples who really did sacrifice their children to their gods. In sparing Isaac, God signals that He will be a new kind of god, one that doesn't ask for the blood of children.

I was sparing your feelings.

There's little use in arguing back with death and in wishing that death will be sparing you because it won't lead you anywhere and you'll lose your battle beforehand and your wish won't ever be answered.

We're sparing no expense.

The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]

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