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
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
"Hush, hush," he answered soothingly; "on the contrary, I am sparing you—sparing you no end of anxiety."
From The Prodigal Father by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
I am sparing you solely for the sake of a very good woman whose great misfortune it was to have been born of the same woman who gave birth to you.
From Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Do not suppose on that account that I am sparing you; I fight decently with both hands, and a left-handed swordsman is an awkward antagonist when one is not prepared for him.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
