Sentence examples for spare back from inspiring English sources

And we had a little time to spare back then.

On June 11 and 15, apparently in reaction to the threat to New York, Clinton requested Cornwallis to fortify either Yorktown or Williamsburg, and send any troops he could spare back to New York.

Then it is our turn to point out some needed fixes - three lights do not work, the spare back wheel is wobbling, and it would be nice if the rear footstep could be reattached.

A LITTLE after 5 p.m. two weeks ago, about 20 aspiring comedians sat in the dark, spare back room of the New York Comedy Club at 24th Street and Third Avenue, trying to psyche themselves up to be, in the words of the club's in-house coach and cheerleader, "the second coming of Pryor or Woody Allen".

He sang "Thinking About You" in near darkness, and with spare backing, magnifying his fragile falsetto.

It begins with words, spoken over a spare backing of electronic sound, that tell the story of Aristophanes' The Birds, about a time before earth and memory existed.

To a spare backing of piano and guitar, Caught a Long Wind stares wistfully at some birds and wonders if taking off into the unknown might cheer things up, but by the time we get to Bittersweet Melodies, even the birds have started ganging up on her, singing by her window apparently with the express intention of letting her know her life's totally up the Swannee.

In place of the spare backing on the album he got from Jones and a few members of his own band, he'll be accompanied by the Hollywood Bowl orchestra, with new string arrangements created by David Campbell, known to music fans of a certain age as Beck's father.

If this is your only source of livelihood, you're going to spare [cut back] even from your food [budget] to make this [sick] cow better.

This, for many years, was standing for hours at his writing desk, to spare his back, "day in and day out.

For much of his life, Roth has lived alone, in rural Connecticut and in Manhattan, spending long days at his desk — a standing desk, the better to spare his back.