The phrase "spare words" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to words that are not necessary or essential to the meaning of a sentence, but are used to add emphasis, emotion, or clarification. Example: "With just a few spare words, she conveyed her deepest emotions."
Brook's actors produce a visceral effect from Beckett's spare words.
Her writing is spare: words work hard and are not encouraged to put on fancy dress or show off.
An elusive sentence, which he works over and over again, shaping and reshaping it, until it can fit, just so, into 12 spare words.
If Ewing had his druthers, the next few days would be like any other in his 16-year career; a few spare words, practice, game, practice, game.
The video is unsparing and short of uplifting, but effectively unsettling, concluding with spare words across the screen: "Look at what you've done... because we refuse to end the violence".
He may be one of the most successful performers in the world, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an extraordinarily gifted musician who can move from rock to ballad to soulful doo-wop, who can capture with a few spare words the dreams and disappointments of clerks and secretaries rocking their lives away on the Long Island Rail Road.
Her writing is astoundingly good; she loops forwards and backwards in time and place, but there is not a spare word in the book.
For a company obsessed with removing every spare word from its homepage ("The fewer, the better," Marissa Mayer once noted), Google's new search interface seems a bit weighty.
The novel is so tightly edited that there is not a single spare word, nor any that are missing.
Callahan, it turns out, is spare with words because they are the same as time.
"A Perfect Day," though spare in words, evokes the greatest hits of snowy days, from steaming cups of hot chocolate to snowball fights.
