spare tire
Example Sentences
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Nor is there provision for a spare tire under the rear cargo floor—there’s a bunch of batteries under there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It used to be far more common for vehicles to include a full-size or even a small spare tire.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
No more flatbed, which Joe conceded was mostly pointless with the bulky spare tire filling it up.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
The next morning, Sylvia finds him shivering and near-incoherent, sitting in a spare tire on the ground.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Liam knelt beside Zu, who was holding on to the spare tire with everything she had, and went to work cranking the van up on the jack and off the demolished back right tire.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
