SPARE in a Sentence

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245 example sentences for SPARE, such as:

1. I have money enough and to spare.
2. In her spare time she read books on cooking.
3. My dear roommate, thank you for sparing my life.
4. I still haven't finished painting the spare room.
5. We've got a spare bedroom, if you'd like to stay.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spare
 a.  being available to use because it is extra
 v.  not hurt or destroy something or someone; give up what is not strictly needed
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
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.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  The room was tidy as a pin, not slept in for months, a spare room.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
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.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
5  The signal was given and the windlass stopped, with abundant rope to spare.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Your mother is quite anxious about it, but cannot very well spare time to sit down herself, because of her fringe.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Dr. Grant, professing an indisposition, for which he had little credit with his fair sister-in-law, could not spare his wife.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
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.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
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.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  'Then spare my life for the love of Heaven, as I spared yours,' rejoined the girl, clinging to him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  In his spare time, he always dreams up new stories.
17  I still haven't finished painting the spare room.
18  I've been trying to raise this spare part everywhere.
19  In her spare time she read books on cooking.
20  That will connect you with time to spare for the seven o'clock Concorde.
21  He makes a little money on the side by cleaning windows in his spare time.
22  The council has some spare cash which it proposes to spend on public amenities.
23  We've got a spare bedroom, if you'd like to stay.
24  His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
25  The terms of their new mandate were hard for Iraq to accept, but it had no choice to spare the country war.
26  The bilious is indicated by a thin, spare face, dark skin, black hair, firm flesh, moderate stoutness, with rough, harsh, and strongly marked features.
27  You can keep a spare rechargeable battery; if you are out and can't recharge, it will let you work double hours.
28  Her sparing use of make-up only seemed to enhance her classically beautiful features.
29  My dear roommate, thank you for sparing my life.
30  Frugality by Japanese consumers does mean sparing returns for investors.