Sentence examples for spare book from inspiring English sources

In my handbag, there's generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.

And "Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men" is indeed a spare book, slender yet full of excitements and dubious desires.

Over two years later, Justine still had not found a way out of her sorrow, but she did find the words, in "If the Spirit Moves You," a tender memoir that reads as something of a sequel to Ruth's spare book.

When the nameless narrator of Katie Kitamura's smart, spare book A Separation finds out that her husband is missing, she's relatively nonplussed.

This short, spare book, a fable about what governments do and the guilt a man tries to stop feeling, can be read in a couple of hours; its bleak, despairing effect will haunt for much longer.

Get paper or a spare book (plain).

If it doesn't work out with Wates, maybe Branson could find him a few spare books to balance.

If you need the top of the desk to be higher, just stack a few spare books on top of the drawers to get the top of the desk about 29 inches off the floor.

It is illuminating to compare those slim, spare books – at times as astringent as Hemingway or even Beckett – with Bats Out of Hell (1993) and High Lonesome (1996), where the words form page-filling slabs.

In the past six months, though, it's felt as though the whole enterprise has been falling to bits, which is why it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Birmingham's libraries are now asking their users to donate spare books while its book-buying fund is "paused".

Embrace the inevitability that spare books and magazines, however endangered both of these things are to the digital revolution, will all find their way to your coffee table.