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were spare
adjective
Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
Exact(36)
Conditions at the camps were spare.
Instead, his words clearing Mrs. Clinton today were spare.
Their orders were spare - get up to Mosul and Nineveh Province and get things under control.
Imer's face seemed tense and his words were spare as he described his family's death.
The readings from the Gospel were spare, and the worshippers sparer still.
All of the Neskis' houses were spare, relatively inexpensive to build and easy to maintain.
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Some beloved characters, like the appealingly daffy Tug McGraw and the ornery thrillbilly Len Dykstra, were spare-part champions in New York but cult heroes in Philly.
He was spared, England were spared.
No landmarks were spared.
Some, though, were spared.
They were spared destruction.
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