bare-bones
Example Sentences
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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
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 • Dec. 30, 2024
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 • Dec. 8, 2024
A: The chair drafted a bare bones skeleton of a treaty.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 25, 2024
When Brekker finished explaining the bare bones of the situation, Rollins shrugged and said, “You got double-crossed. You want my advice, give Kuwei to Van Eck and be done with it.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
