Sentence examples for go spare from inspiring English sources

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go spare

verb

To be available or unused.

  • There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more.

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Anyway, go spare a few bucks if you can.

Besides, Gerry would go spare if Swanlon's rusting wreck of a car, parping cloudlets of straw and dung out the exhaust, came up the school drive to collect him.

My monstrous appetite terrified my mother, and I expect she thought I was going to suck her guts out, because she'd go spare and pinch my nostrils so I gasped for breath, opened my mouth, and dropped from her nipple.

"If you are waiting to be the king of the United Kingdom, and you have waited a very long time, you genuinely have to engage with something or you would go spare".

And there are enjoyable turns from a suave Omid Djalili, as Marks's Pakistan contact, and Thewlis, who hasn't had the chance to really go spare on screen since Naked, and more than makes up for lost time as shaggy, mad-eyed Jim McCann.

"If you are waiting to be the king of the United Kingdom, and you've waited a very long time, you genuinely have to engage with something or you'd go spare".

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Miller's decision to go spared Cameron from having to defend her at prime minister's questions, as well as avoided what could have been a stormy meeting later of the Tory 1922 backbench committee.

Try and see if friends have what you want going spare- e.g. your friend has grown out of her shoes and is going to chuck them out, see if she will give them to you, perhaps in return for a plate of biscuits or something.

McPrickface will be going spare.

People are going spare [at GCHQ/MI6] because there is a public relations crisis to handle.

But this only takes us up to eight and leaves two slots going spare.

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