bare bones

Its bare bones prose and electrifying pictures preserve, honor and celebrate the people, places and ideas responsible for Rosales’ sentimental education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Down to the bare bones due to a host of injuries, Roma moved into third thanks to quickfire late goals from Manu Kone and Matias Soule which broke Sassuolo's brave resistance.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

The home side's fast bowling is down to the bare bones and a potential area of weakness in what could be superb batting conditions.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, is contractually obligated to broadcast the games but will do so in bare-bones fashion, with no commentary, punditry or advertising.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Realism is achieved not through bare-bones scenic furniture but through the combustible relationships of characters who exist with one another in a purgatory of disillusionment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

As a no-frills carrier, Spirit adds pressure on larger airlines, which have responded with bare-bones "basic economy" offerings, according to Brueckner.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

But as some point out, other extras may be nonnegotiable, making the bare-bones economy fare not a feasible option.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026

When they'd first started visiting him here—after the divorce, but before Richie—their dad's duplex had been a bare-bones bachelor pad.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell