The phrase "assortment of spare" is not correct in English as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to a variety of spare items or parts, but it needs to be completed for proper usage.
Example: "We have an assortment of spare parts available for the repair of various appliances."
Alternatives: "variety of spare" or "selection of spare".
Today, Pinterest makes it clear that a desirable kitchen contains not just a breakfast bar and several vintagey pendant lamps but a subway-tile backsplash, a Wolf range, a couple of succulents, and open shelving displaying a spare assortment of hand-thrown pottery.
Employing modernist abstraction as a kind of bulletin board that also suggests a chunk of art-studio wall, each presents a spare but suggestive assortment of cheap and expendable items — photographs, trinkets, newspaper clippings, decals, small objects and the odd drawing or note — that, like the works in Ms. Hendeles's show, form a kind of rebus.
a couple of spare shirts.
SO far, people looking to adjust their financial plans to save on taxes this year have been spared the anguish of muddling through an assortment of mind-numbing modifications to the 45,662-page tax code.
The retailer's largest store in New York City, it will take inspiration from an art gallery or ballet studio (spare white walls, natural wood floors) and will carry an assortment of ready-to-wear, handbags and shoes, as well as limited-edition collaborations.
New York ramen eaters, used to a colorful assortment of veggies and meat in their soup bowls, might be surprised at the spare garnish employed at Setagaya: a few slices of fatty grilled pork belly, a stack of bamboo shoots, a tangle of seaweed, a heap of julienned scallion and an egg, halved and just short of hardboiled.
Mr. Lafler blew so much glass in his garage in his spare time that he no longer had space for his growing assortment of glass flowers, beads, pendants, vases, drinking goblets and perfume bottles.
Or maybe the justices want to spare other courts the need to keep reviewing and declaring unconstitutional an endless assortment of violent-video bans.
A motley assortment of enterprises reopened.
(Jay Russell plays an assortment of other roles).
