7 sentences with 'spared'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spared and other words derived from it.
• « Of the seven teenagers in the back seat of the Honda, only Emily Slosberg and Maribel Fariñas were spared, both with serious injuries. Maribel was left a quadriplegic. »
• « Judah was spared in part because of a plague that struck the Assyrian army, but still ended up a tributary of the Assyrians, paying annual tribute and answering to an Assyrian official. »
• « However, the attempt at colonisation failed, most likely due to conflict between the Vikings and the Native American peoples they encountered, so the peoples of the Americas were spared further European settlers for nearly five centuries. »
• « During the English Civil War, England went from being one of the least militarised societies in Europe to one of the most militarised; one in eight Englishmen participated directly in the fighting, and few regions of England were spared the horrific bloody fighting. »
• « World War II was unprecedented in its effects on civilian populations. Many previous wars of the modern era had largely spared civilians, and most casualties were limited to men who fought or logistically supported the fighting. »
• « Thus, the war experience of civilians in countries that were in or near combat often revolved around terror and hardship. All, including those spared from bombing or foreign occupation, faced food and supply shortages that worsened over time. »
• « Of the approximately 200,000 Jews who were spared immediate murder upon arrival at Auschwitz, the vast majority were worked to death or murdered in the gas chambers after becoming too weak to work. »