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synonyms for bare bones

  • basic
  • basic facts
  • core
  • essential elements
  • frame
  • no-frills
  • skeleton
  • undercarriage
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How to use bare bones in a sentence

Here in a few paragraphs are the bare bones of the plan described in eighty of Henry James's pages.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND
A lot of speculation necessarily clothed the bare bones of Jones' information.
THE HOUR OF BATTLEROBERT SHECKLEY
Hiawatha looked on wistfully to see them eat till they were fully satisfied, and they left him nothing but the bare bones.
YOUNG FOLKS TREASURY, VOLUME 2 (OF 12)VARIOUS
It was the bare bones of this old earth, as sombre and foreboding as any ruin of granite under the wrack of the bleak north.
OLD JUNKH. M. TOMLINSON
I have lived to see the people who go into the desert for adventure, and whose bare bones are all any man looks on again!
THE TREASURE TRAILMARAH ELLIS RYAN
Coyotes had been at work on them; here lay a heap of bare bones; there a skull glistened in the white sunlight.
THE COMING OF THE LAWCHARLES ALDEN SELTZER
It would soon be reduced to bare bones if left to the mercy of the white ants.
RALPH DENHAM'S ADVENTURES IN BURMAGEORGE NORWAY
Thumb alive they paid no heed to, but Thumb dead they would have picked to the bare bones before sunset.
THE THREE MULLA-MULGARSWALTER DE LA MARE
It was like finding cold, bare bones embedded in one's breakfast porridge.
THE BRENTONSANNA CHAPIN RAY
Don't despair of reforming any man till you see the grass growing over his bare bones.
THE ROMANCE OF A CHRISTMAS CARDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
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WORDS RELATED TO BARE BONES

  • ABC's
  • bare bones
  • brass tacks
  • elements
  • essentials
  • first steps
  • foundation
  • nitty-gritty
  • nuts and bolts
  • principles
  • rudiments
  • the three R's
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.