In The Myth of the Great War, Mosier argues that Germany was winning World War I, and only the arrival of the United States spared the Allies from military defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.

But at least your arrival spared you what the rest of us had to endure yesterday, Sir.

Chopper Jim's arrival spared her the necessity of a suitably discourteous reply.

For these new arrivals would have spared a black-clad target to wither an uncloaked figure instead.

Supporters of the overthrown Spanish Republic, which had received aid from the Soviet Union while under attack from National rebel forces, were sometimes incorrectly identified with communism, but their arrival in the United States well before the "red scare" of the early 1950s spared them the worst excesses of McCarthyism.

Unfortunately, this arrival results in the zombification of Kraven The Hunter, Mysterio, Electro, The Vulture, Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, but fortunately spared the Sandman (Marvel comics) and the brutal death of his counterpart of this Earth.

Fortunately, Alroy's arrival spared Javan having to answer any challenge someone might wish to make of that denial, though he knew it was what the regents had long hoped to hear.

The arrival of Seonid's two Warders spared him for another few minutes.