Sentence examples for going spare from inspiring English sources

The phrase "going spare" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as an adjective to describe something that is not being used or needed and is available for someone else to have or use. Example: "I have a spare ticket to the concert, do you want it? It's just been sitting in my drawer going spare."

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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.

You can drop by anytime and order a bespoke suit, should you have seven thousand bucks going spare.

If you have a few grand going spare, why not make your Glastonbury experience all the more comfortable?

This is creating opportunities for home-based entrepreneurs with a green thumb and a patch of garden going spare.

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A big improvement on the Amazon, which could start in 20 degrees of frost but went spare if it met a snowdrift.

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.

"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.

Anyway, go spare a few bucks if you can.

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