Sentence examples for spared the crowd from inspiring English sources

Manuel Almunia, Watford's goalkeeper, was their best performer and Holloway's team ought really to have spared the crowd the anxieties of extra time considering the number of chances they piled up once they realised, after a fairly wretched first half from both teams, the game was there for the taking.

Even these bewildered visitors were not spared the crowd's wrath.

This was their fifth in the last eight games at Old Trafford although, on a more positive note, the performance was reasonable enough for Van Gaal to be spared the crowd's wrath.

There were a few moments today when the United States showed its testy side, yet the crowd spared the Americans the indignity of constant jeers.

And when the final whistle confirmed unbeaten Rangers as champions with eight games to spare, the home crowd indulged in a sense of triumph.

In this private workspace for creatives, there isn't a cappuccino-colored armchair in the screening room to spare; the small crowd spilled into seats in the aisles, some already clutching "High Winds" and "The Artists Prisonn," X Artists' first two titles.

Sports fans are seated -- virtually, of course -- amid the crowd, but spared the pretzel crumbs and spilled soda.

The president's subsequent resignation sparked a wave of vengeance-seeking across Havana, but remarkably the ransacking crowds largely spared the Capitolio.

Future Islands, meanwhile, have energy to spare, haranguing the crowd to dance to their 80s-movie goth-synth-pop.

(They spared the Great Mosque).

There was no space to spare, but the crowds somehow grew denser as the bus moved along Regent Street, into Piccadilly Circus and then down Haymarket.