I employed myself in planting my second rows of stakes of piles, and in this wicker-work, all the summer, or dry season; when another business took me up more time than it could be imagined I could spare.
The 10th May the Pepper-corn arrived here, likewise homewards bound; and as she was but ill provided with necessaries, we supplied her from our scanty store as well as we could spare.
Perceiving the Clove to be admiral, I went first on board her, taking such fresh victuals as we could spare.
In the meantime Sir Jasper Nicholls, who was commander-in-chief of the British forces in India, was urged by Lord Auckland to push on to Peshawar as many troops as he could spare.
As they had no money--except about one hundred dollars between them--I let them have what provisions we could spare, and then accepted their invitation to visit the Julia.
He had not a single canoe he could spare, except very small ones, which would be useless in such weather, whereas my whaleboat would make nothing of it.
I gave them a little provisions--all I could spare, but their appearance so disgusted me that I was not too civil to them.
Look here, Lawrence; supposing I were to run down on this place; I believe I could spare a day better than you, and a breath of fresh air would do me no harm.
Their non-arrival aroused in me suspicions of foul play, so with all the men I could spare, and accompanied by Lieutenant William T.
Smith's command, and such other troops as he could spare.
It was all that he could spare, as with the next tide the ships might bring up the residue of the army, and attack the city.
To frustrate such a design, Washington ordered Clinton to post as good a number of troops from his garrison as he could spare on the mountains west of the river.
Putnam drew back to the hills in the rear of the village to prepare for the expected attack, and sent off to Governor Clinton for all the troops he could spare.
Frobisher had already told off as many men as he could spare to carry water, but it seemed impossible to quench the poor wretches' thirst; their cry was always for more, even though they had drunk but a moment previously.
Frobisher determined to go and find him, when he could spare a moment or two from the matter in hand, bring him up on deck, and thus teach him, by the most practical of methods, how to stand fire without flinching.
Joe had limited himself strictly to that which they could not do without on the Trail or would need for starting a new life in Oregon, and he sold or traded everything he could spare.
He was with them every second he could spare, and he forever invented games for them to play.
Maybe this fall, or as soon as he could spare a day from the fields, it would be a good idea if he took Tad hunting with him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could spare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
