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Example sentences for: spared

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The DNC could have spared itself the need for NSA intercepts by reading the paper or visiting the library.
As Joseph Harmatz, one of their number, explained, they felt the only reason they had been spared death like so many friends and kin was so that they could administer revenge.
Built in the 17th century, it was the only one of Wuhan’s 20 or more Buddhist temples spared by rampaging Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).
Persons not conversant with the languages involved will probably have no answers to these rhetorical questions, but I feel sure they will prefer to be spared the obnoxious truth.
While cops stood idly by, mobs trashed the buildings listed above, but they spared the Levi's outlet across the street from the American Center, and rentals of that marvelous Nora Ephron movie remain high, notes Steven Erlanger in the New York Times , so some good has come from these tragic events.