Meanings of spare use in English

Economy of living, curiously enough, is marked by a spare use of ink.

George didn't answer, and Graham knew it was because he was making spare use of his breaths.

That luxury was reserved for the attorney, who himself made but a sparing use of it.

On the other hand his effects are less sparkling, owing to his more sparing use of rhetoric.

I consider, however, that it must be a sparing use, and not of a broad or definite character.

A grid of shelving covered the rear wall, intended to hold a stock of spares used regularly by the shop.

You will perceive that I have made very sparing use of your flattering permission to alter what you had written.

The former means a frugal and judicious use of things without waste, the latter a too close and sparing use of things needed.

Poiret approached, a tall, round-shouldered man, bent by the plow, emaciated through abstinence, bony, with a skin dried by a sparing use of water.

We shall, of course, make very sparing use indeed of his own Memoirs; and never without distrust, except where they are confirmed by other evidence.

Thus by a sparing use of examples, lessons, and pictures, you may blunt the sting of sense and delay nature while following her own lead.