Sentence examples for mere spare from inspiring English sources

He was widely regarded as the least charismatic of the leading presidential candidates, and derided as a mere "spare tire," pulled in after the disqualification of the Brotherhood's first choice.

Our organs are not mere spare parts.

Instead, with mere hours to spare, more than a thousand people decided they could not take the chance of being picked up.

Even if the definition of sensitive information were confined to "national security" (and the green paper is sloppily ambiguous on whether it will be), we all know how this supposedly unanswerable phrase gets deployed to spare mere blushes.

Four forklift drivers positioned themselves on the four corners of the first pallet, then drove in formation to a tractor-trailer that pulled out of the warehouse with mere inches to spare.

Al is innately self-confident, seldom a worrier, liable to turn up for big races or training sessions with mere seconds to spare.

Have you ever had one of those meals that was so big, you knew you had mere minutes to spare between dropping the fork and falling asleep?

The Post article about weapons delivery notes that the U.S. has committed itself to "a $250 million effort to support moderate factions of the Syrian opposition" -- a mere trickle of spare change, in Defense spending terms.

They think about the Blades on average 110 times a day whereas Manchester United fans spare a mere 71 thoughts.

Most products need more than the mere ten seconds you spare them to work -- especially acne washes designed to combat breakouts.

A three-page Home Office press release this month trumpeted a further advance: the end of animal testing for the production of finished cosmetics—a reform which, it turns out, would have spared a mere 252 rats, guinea pigs and rabbits last year.More serious reforms pose problems.