bare existence
Example Sentences
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Like other parts of the Gulf, it was a harsh and bare existence.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2022
In retrospect, I wasn’t so much contemptuous as I was afraid, afraid of what their bare existence said about me and my place in the world.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2018
Even with survivors scratching out a bare existence, would there forever after be harsh limits to the range of human hopes?
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012
It is the kingdom of microbes, of tiny bacteria and other microscopic organisms that in some Antarctic regions eke out a bare existence, and in others are almost flourishing.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2010
The British Socialist writers tell us: "The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage—i.e. that quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence."
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
