spared
Example Sentences
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The chain had even somehow been spared—not a single link broken.
From Literature
Their stand-in renditions spared livestock and human attendants from sacrifice.
That stunning play in the bottom of the ninth inning didn’t just save Game 7 of the World Series, it also spared Pages’ reputation.
From Los Angeles Times
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
There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
