spare tire

Example Sentences

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In your car, you should have a kit with a first aid kit, a blanket, a change of clothes, cash to buy gas, a spare tire and emergency food and water.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023

He said the truck’s left front tire, which was a spare tire, blew out before impact.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Keep that stuff in your trunk, just like you’d have a spare tire.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2022

They would send a team to Mr. Spiegel’s wrecked plane, 70 miles away, and have them collect an engine and a spare tire and return to Torun.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Liam knelt beside Zu, who was holding on to the spare tire with everything she had, and went to work cranking the van up on the jack and off the demolished back right tire.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken