barest
Example Sentences
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MarketWatch Picks: My Social Security benefits ‘were cut to the barest minimum’ after I retired.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
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
An ambitious new adaptation of this bleakly funny play looks to tease out its essence by stripping it down to its barest elements.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2023
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
