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How to use the word spared in a Sentence?

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For a long time, we here in New England have been spared the full impact of methamphetamine, a drug that has blighted lives in so many other communities across the country, those days, I regret to say, are over, with meth increasingly making its presence felt in Rhode Island and across the Northeast.

Rhode Island

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It happened in the first -- the first time he got on -- and I spared him that time. Then it happened again, and it was just uncalled for. We don't need to be playing like that.

Tim Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm not saying that in hyperbole, they've spared no expense. It's visually an incredible studio and the capabilities that it will give us to present the weather in a unique and exciting way is unmatched.

Ian Oliver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Children facing orphanhood as a result of COVID is a hidden, global pandemic that has sadly not spared the United States, all of us – especially our children – will feel the serious immediate and long-term impact of this problem for generations to come.

Susan Hillis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My response to him, personally, is I give all my praises to my God who taught me to be a forgiving person, allah is not the one who still has him taking in oxygen right now. Allah is not the one who spared his life. Allah is not the one who stopped me from wrapping my hands around his neck when I was less than three feet away from him in the court room.

Alonzo Lunsford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man, we believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.

Douglas Kennedy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We got wind damage everywhere, there's not a neighborhood that's been spared, there's not a street that's been spared, there's not a neighborhood that doesn't have a massive amount of split power pole.

Councilman Dominick Impastato

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's not a neighborhood that's been spared, there's not a street that's been spared, there's not a neighborhood that doesn't have a massive amount of split power poles.

Councilman Dominick Impastato

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We got wind damage everywhere, there's not a neighborhood that's been spared, there's not a street that's been spared, there's not a neighborhood that doesn't have a massive amount of split power poles.

Councilman Dominick Impastato

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The proof is in the movie, and we swing for the fences as we always do, with the amount of creative energy we put in and the budget, there's no expense spared to bring this origin story to the screen.

Kevin Feige

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The circumstances of this brutal attack are still unclear and no effort will be spared to shed light on what happened.

Luigi Di Maio

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're in such an aggressive cancel culture now. Torrance Shipman is spared because of the timing of the movie, she is shamed and humiliated but not to such an extent that she can't recover and do better. If we can allow each other the space of our learning curves, only good can come out of that.

Jessica Bendinger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Unfortunately, no corner of society has been spared, including the prison system.

Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We'll hold on as long as we have to, if three children are spared harassment because people read our story, I'll be happy.

Susana Cristo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm just putting my faith in God that, you know, somehow, while doing this, I'm gonna be spared from getting infected by this, i can't afford it.

Excelso Sabulao

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If every other state and metropolitan area takes the same dire stance, many cities may be spared the situation that NYC is in, our actions every day matter in preventing people from getting the virus and thus reducing the burden on the health care system.

Krys Johnson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

No state, no metro area will be spared.

Deborah Birx

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Even if you dont think ... theres a virus there, it probably is, we dont think any city will be spared from this virus.

Deborah Birx

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The whole nation, but particularly the Muslim community, has been spared a trial that could have acted as a platform.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

None of the culprits will be spared from legal action.

Sheikh Hasina

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The #MeToo movement has not spared the world of politics. As long as inequality between women and men persists, no woman will be safe from violence and harassment, we, women and men in politics, do however have a lever that can turn us into movers of change : the Istanbul Convention -- a legal instrument aimed at preventing, protecting, prosecuting and, above all, breaking the sexist pattern.

Liliane Maury Pasquier

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I believe that a lot of people could have been spared, my heart is very heavy. Out of 11 of us, only two of us surviving – that’s me and my nephew.

Survivor Tia Coleman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He did it at the top of this mountain in Anacapri. Totally dark, only stars. Thankfully he didn’t push me off the cliff. He said it was one or the other. And in the end he spared me.

Katharine McPhee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm concerned that they've been dragging their feet over at the Justice Department to giving Congress — they could have spared the country a whole bunch of drama if they would have complied with the document requests months ago when they were made in the first place.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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