Little
Little adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Usage example: the petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep
Spare and little are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Little".
Nearby Word: littleness
Both words in one sentence
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Procrustes had a spare room and a spare iron bed, which he would offer to people who came past his house (as it was on a major road a little outside Athens, there were a lot of those).
Source: Inn of No Return - In order to spare her little sister from the same fate, she murdered and buried the little girl in their neighbor's yard and subsequently entered a convent.
Source: Parental Incest -
He then forces them to learn 7 Girls' War, a more technically challenging song, with little time to spare before the event.
Source: Anime / Wake Up, Girls!
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