Explain
Spare
Spare verb - To use or give out in stingy amounts.
Common collocations
| truth | explain truth | spare truth |
| death | explain death | spare death |
| characters | explain characters | spare characters |
| details | explain details | spare details |
| Other words: feelings. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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All There in the Manual: Supplemental materials explain that most midsize or larger spaceships have an emergency backup hyperdrive which serves basically the same purpose as a spare tire on a car.
Source: Film / The Empire Strikes Back -
Further added when Nate must begrudgingly explain the note to Artur (being an exchange student and mildly naive) and tells Artur he is free to puruse Jenny when Artur comments his reason for not doing so during a sooner period was to spare Nate's feelings.
Source: Comic Strip / Big Nate -
Right after Nick and Ki's Big Damn Kiss in General Protection Fault when they reach Ki's apartment, their friend and colleague Fooker calls her to explain he is in Mexico right now and ... would she know someone with a kidney to spare?
Source: Organ Theft
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