The PM supported it, but was just another spear carrier in the free vote.

And Jimmy didn't see the policeman as a spear carrier.

Vixa traded a few blows with a spear carrier.

Then the policeman suddenly found himself demoted from hero to spear carrier and his story finished.

The spear carrier came within range and tossed them three ration packets from the glider's stores.

The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.

I've always wondered what it would be like to be a spear carrier in somebody else's story.

I admit that the man was still a spear carrier to me, but nonetheless both deaths bothered me.

A spear carrier is a character put in a story to be used like a piece of disposable tissue.

A spear carrier is somebody who stands in the hail when Caesar passes, comes to attention and thumps his spear.

A spear carrier is the anonymous character cut down by the hero as he advances to save the menaced heroine.

Mr. Kutsov was a spear carrier to the policeman, a spear carrier who asserted himself at the wrong moment, and then was eliminated.

More like Brexit extras in the thespian sense, bit-part players, understudies, spear carriers.

In this spirit, some very prominent people become mere spear carriers within the Bohemian Club.

The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.

In a story, spear carriers never suddenly assert themselves by throwing their spears aside and saying, I resign.