barest
Example Sentences
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It's a world away from old school royal releases which stuck to the barest of details and stayed as dry as the desert.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
One theory is that men just aren’t taught about the finer points of hygiene—that because cleanliness is dismissed as a feminine trait, parents give boys only the barest instruction in why and how to clean.
From Slate • May 17, 2024
Almost everything they grew went to the landowners as rent payments, leaving them with the barest of means to survive.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024
Their names were lost, and not much about their lives was known beyond the barest facts: an old age spent in the poorhouse, a problem with cavities.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
