Sentence examples for it was spare from inspiring English sources
It was spare, nervy music created in reaction to the embarrassing excesses of arena rock.
Written by Dale Wasserman, the show was dark, it was spare, it had no jaunty production numbers.
It was spare but chicly furnished a double bed with a fabric-covered headboard, a Scandinavian-style nightstand, and a small Aztec rug.
It was Spare Rib that fortified my effort, in our school's debating society, to persuade a small audience of my peers that "All Men Oppress All Women All the Time".
Unlike most churches in Barcelona it was not damaged during the revolution - it was spared because of its 'artistic value' people said".
It was spared yet another great-power war in either Europe or, after Korea in 1950-53, in Asia.
It was spared only because of lobbying by Xie Fei, the relatively liberal party chief of Guangdong at the time.
It may have helped that it was spared the giddiness that sometimes seems to go with Arts Council largesse.
It was spared the presence of carpetbaggers who might have tried to manipulate occupation policy to serve their private interests.
During the war, it was spared bombing, and it was now being guarded by elements of the 3rd Infantry Division's 369th Armored Battalion, whose laundry was hanging outside.
Under his one-party rule it was politically peaceful and it was spared civil war.His social experiments, on the other hand, drove the country towards economic ruin.
