bare bones

Example Sentences

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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

What is announced today is likely to be only the bare bones of a narrow agreement.

From BBC

But there was no sound team, no makeup, no construction — just the bare bones of what it takes to make something.”

From Los Angeles Times

Other operators he's spoken to "really are on their bare bones," as some ran out of Guinness on Friday night, he says.

From BBC

A: The chair drafted a bare bones skeleton of a treaty.

From Science Magazine