Sample Sentences forspartan (editor-reviewed)
spartan with a lowercase "s"
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The dorm room was spartan—a bed, a desk, and bare walls.spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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After a phase of excess spending, they adopted a spartan lifestyle, cutting out all non-essential purchases.spartan = characterized by self-discipline and avoidance of comfort or luxury
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During his senior year at Emory, Chris lived off campus in his bare, spartan room furnished with milk crates and a mattress on the floor. (source)spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. (source)
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It's quite a spartan room. (source)
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Inside the spartan office were two large framed photographs: president Bill Clinton and a highly decorated Naval officer. (source)
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Mr. Curtain's desk, a dull-polished, Spartan metal affair, was carefully organized with file boxes and short stacks of paper. (source)Spartan = plain and basic without extras
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Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.† (source)
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She lived in a spotlessly clean, spartan flat on the ground floor. (source)spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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It's a spartan building with a corrugated steel roof that shakes so badly when a plane passes overhead, she half expects it to collapse. (source)spartan = plain and simple, without extras
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Werner makes his way alone to a spartan hostel six blocks away, where he rents a bed for two marks a night and lies among muttering itinerants and listens to the pigeons and bells and shuddering traffic of Essen. (source)spartan = plain and simple, with few comforts or luxuries
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The room was spartan—hardwood floors, a pine dresser, a canvas mat in the corner that served as his bed. (source)
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Fear washed over her, as it had in the Spartan temple.† (source)
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Even Roger's office at company headquarters is pretty spartan.† (source)
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The office was spartan, streamlined, and quiet as a church.† (source)
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They kept the camp's enormous stadium lights on at all hours of the night; the lights stood like giants across the camp, but all they reminded me of were night football games, the smell of fresh cut grass, and the back of my dad's red Spartan sweater as he yelled for his old high school's team to run some damn offense at the top of his lungs.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a battle, then explode into a million colors. (source)Spartan = people of the ancient Greece city-state of Sparta
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I'm no Spartan and hold up an anemic wrist to prove it. (source)Spartan = someone from the ancient city-state of Sparta -- know for being tough and strictly self-disciplined
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The Spartan quarterback lost his footing in the mud before any of our guys reached him. (source)Spartan = team nickname
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On third and inches inside their own twenty, the Spartan quarterback faked a handoff to the fullback. (source)Spartan = team nickname
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Perhaps in Orchomenos, perhaps in sandy Pylos or off in the Spartan plains with Menelaus? (source)Spartan = of the ancient Greece city-state of Sparta
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