Sentence examples for spared a break from inspiring English sources

Barbara Nemeth, who lives about a mile up the brook from Mr. Earl, is from a community of 28 families around Glen Lake who were spared a break in their dam but were left stranded when a bridge over the brook, which leads to their community, was washed away.

The producers told the gathered consumers that the race team could spare a brief break in their testing activities to provide the rides, and whisked attendees to the pit lane just as the "race" machines entered.

In any case, every prime minister for the past 30 years, caught far from home when a domestic crisis broke, also spares a thought for Old Labour's last prime minister who was attending a major summit in the West Indies in January 1979 when the "winter of discontent" – trade union strikes against government pay policy – came to a head.

A weak Williams return into the net spared Pironkova a double break, but having finally got her eye in, the American began to gain the upper hand in the match.

So Carney's focus on spare capacity is not such a break with the past.

A break in one could spare other towns, he said, or send water rushing in unexpected directions, including here.

Still, he's got a spare break to hand in this set.

Each Saturday she has her 15-year-old, disabled grandson to stay in her spare room to give her daughter a break.

Are Republicans going to deny the average working family a $1,500 tax break in order to spare millionaires a modest increase?

Carry spares wherever possible: things break and get lost; bulbs burn out and boot laces break.

But many more may be spared the broken promises and broken hearts of the current system, which includes no federal oversight of agencies working overseas.