be sparing with
Example Sentences
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To all dads of teenage girls, please, be sparing with those ‘light teasing’ remarks.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
“You have to be sparing with the word ‘historic,’ ” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who with a Social Democrat colleague, Family Minister Manuela Schwesig, spent months steering the law over legal and political hurdles.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2015
“Okay, guys, be sparing with the ink, so everyone gets enough. Share. But don’t take too long either, or it might all dry all up.”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
Put plenty of the real thing in and don't be sparing with the tasties.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
I feel that these discreet lights and reserved colours will give a certain amount of weight and even solemnity to my careful flattery—A large bottle of Perrier Jouet '02, and be sparing with the ice.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo
