spare
verb (used with object)
to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy.
am sparing
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present progressiveof spare (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I write this with a sense of shame, and I am sparing you the graphic details: the open mouths, the feet on chairs, the slumping, the wrestling, the singing of songs about poop.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011
Dear Miss H——, Mary has such an invincible reluctance to any epistolary exertion, that I am sparing her a mortification by taking the pen from her.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
In the meantime, sparing myself in her eyes no more than I am sparing myself in yours now, I told her how little she had ever had to fear from Kitty Windus.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
I am sparing my children these sacrifices; I am devoting myself to them.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Ren? Bazin
I am sparing of reflections, unless it be upon those remarkable events from which they naturally result; and I never biass the reader's judgment by any conjectural impositions of my own.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide
