spared

Example Sentences

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Tuczemskyi considers his partner a hero and is grateful for the maternal instinct that spared his family even more heartache.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

They then talked their way into an assignment in Colorado training Special Forces soldiers to ski and climb mountains, a job that spared them from being sent to fight in Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Even the ancient statues in the capital’s National Museum — those that weren’t stolen — weren’t spared.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Morgan analysts wrote in a recent note to clients, during periods of high market volatility, gold “is not spared from the sell-everything dynamic.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Could it be that somewhere beyond there are more valleys like this, other places that have been spared?

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien