Spare in sentence

540 examples of Spare in a sentence

And the inability of her to do that same work from her couch means that she might be having to take days or hours off of work that she can't spare.

We need every spare second of their time."

One said, "My parents did not have good seeds, but there are friendly men out there who have spare seeds.

By busy, I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time.

Hasn't helped the idiotic reporting standards yet ... I actually pay someone to scrub my social media feeds, attempting to spare my brain the daily iterations of the trauma of hate speech.

Learning to recognize that shameful feeling of holding back just a little love to try to spare ourselves just a little pain somewhere further down the road.

With no time to spare, the iron comes to life, and you manage to get the shirt flawlessly ironed.

Now, we like to think that he made the dumbwaiter in order to spare his slaves all that labor of carrying the food up to the dining room for the people to eat.

Texting turned every spare moment into a chance to show to my coworkers and my dear husband what a responsive person I was, or at least it was a chance to find another perfect couch for my page on Pinterest.

Your calculations have given you a 46-digit number for the count of rabbits in the bottom cell– plenty of room to spare.

You could probably find the answer by drawing a scale model of the room and tracing the path of the light, but the sun will be in its place in just minutes, and you’ve got no time to spare.

In her spare time O’Connor drew cartoons, and her writing is also brimming with caricature.

We used 40,000 words, so that's 40,000 cubed, 64 trillion combinations of three words, which is more than enough for the 57-trillion-odd three-meter squares, with a few spare.

JF: And before leaving, we would like to show you another kind of mathematical problem that some of the boys have worked out in their spare time, in a less serious vein, for a Sunday afternoon.

If you follow my suggestions, you'll have a very spare, Zen-like presentation, which is great to convey who you are and get people emotionally involved, but not good as a handout.

But he read books in every spare moment he could find.

So, in the tidied-up version we have a sort of Keith Haring spare parts shop.

Scott Simon, who told this story on NPR, said, "Rules and procedures may be dumb, but they spare you from thinking."

May you always have lots of love to share, lots of good health to spare, and lots of good friends that care.

So it's not just something you do in your spare time.

It is important to recover in our spare time, to de-stress and do things we enjoy, and the biggest obstruction we face in that regard is ruminating.

If you took all the continents and you put them together in a little Pangaea 2.0, they'd fit snug inside the Pacific, with room to spare.

With minutes to spare, Mission Control gave the order.

And a significant minority of those 500 million people like to spend some of their leisure time and spare cash sleeping with prostitutes, sticking 50 Euro notes up their nose and employing illegal migrant laborers.

I have a whole global governance sermon that I will spare you right now, because I don't think that's going to be enough anyway, although it's essential.

I only have three minutes so I'm going to have to talk fast, and it will use up your spare mental cycles, so multitasking may be hard.

Then, when that gave out, I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat and used those.

And I will spare you that slide.

The problem is, if you buy a $40,000 incubator, and you send it off to a midsized village in Africa, it will work great for a year or two years, and then something will go wrong and it will break, and it will remain broken forever, because you don't have a whole system of spare parts, and you don't have the on-the-ground expertise to fix this $40,000 piece of equipment.

And so all you need is the spare parts from your Toyota and the ability to fix a headlight, and you can repair this thing.

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