How to Use bare-bones in a Sentence

bare-bones

1 of 2 adjective
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  • But big airlines soon successfully copied much of that business model with their lowest bare-bones fares.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The bare-bones narrative often seems to drift rather than move forward with purpose, occasionally threatening to get carried off by the winds that hammer the island.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Some are bare-bones: a single responder with a phone on 24 hours a day.
    — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Inspire 3 is pretty bare-bones, but that’s by design.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 10 June 2023
  • This one adds an extra hanging rod and even shelves to a bare-bones, one-rod closet.
    — Lisa Lombardi, wsj.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • For decades, Notepad has been a bare-bones text editor found in Windows.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The first movie had a bare-bones plot, a skeleton scaffolding on which to hang set piece after set piece.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The original Halo Band was a bare-bones tracker that launched in 2020.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Today the timbers of the ship are stored in a bare-bones warehouse in an industrial park.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
  • There are, of course, many more options for buyers who aren't inclined to stick to the bare-bones off-roader setup.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
  • For a more bare-bones service, Tailor Brands is a standout option.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But by 2009, according to users, Reddit’s website was as bare-bones as before the sale.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Grilling and barbecue have, for decades, been pretty bare-bones affairs.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Today, the bare-bones base still attracts hard-core skiers who don’t mind using an outhouse and preparing meals on a camp stove.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The plan was bare-bones, but showed that a reboot was at least under consideration.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Many are still outside the country, but some remained, or returned for bare-bones productions such as this one.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • McCollum brought that rough recording to Randall, who prefers that bare-bones format.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Parshall: That last comment came from Ron Gordon, the patent agent and former physicist, who didn’t see a whole lot of value in Cleo’s bare-bones answer.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • But much of the buzz faded somewhat in the weeks that followed as users realized the bare-bones platform still lacked many of the features that made X popular with users.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The press corps that evening had been bare-bones—maybe three other print reporters plus a few photographers and local-TV cameras.
    — Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Similarly, the cross-country team for years survived on a bare-bones budget.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Classic Mint Julep Whiskey, simple syrup and a modicum of walloped mint leaves: A bare-bones drink that feels like the essence of a sultry summer afternoon.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 20 June 2024
  • The end result is an Apple Podcasts that no longer resembles the bare-bones podcast player of the 2010s and looks more like, well, Spotify.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The actual indictment of Mr. Trump produced by Mr. Bragg’s office is more bare-bones.
    — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Remember, Threads launched as a bare-bones 1.0 beta version.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • In a sport often played in front of parents and friends in bare-bones gyms, that carries an intimidation factor.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Unlike these consumer devices, though, PCC servers are as bare-bones as possible.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • How much help would come from their bare-bones insurance policy or FEMA?
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 15 July 2023
  • The games are closer to a crossword puzzle or Wordle, feature bare-bones graphics, and should take only a few minutes per day to complete.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • Nothing special, no electronics, just a bare-bones setup with a paddle bracket and a base for my Go Pro camera.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
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bare bones

2 of 2 plural noun
  • With the bare bones in place, the problem became the décor.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Thanks to some clever knife skills, all the meat on the wing is pushed to the top, leaving one end with just bare bone.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Like those big booming punts and the bare bones punt return room?
    — Jeff Sentell, ajc, 19 Sep. 2017
  • All spaces were taken down to the bare bones during the project, which started in the spring of 2018.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The two men traded a few ideas, and Harjo wrote up some notes, just the bare bones of a concept for a show.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • For now, though, the bare bones approach has proved durable enough through the pandemic.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The Marlins are stripping the team down to the bare bones, and this year their fans won't have the All-Star Game to at least look forward to.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Other than a glamorous past, what was the allure of those bare bones?
    — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 9 Dec. 2013
  • On the other hand, Liverpool are somewhat down to the bare bones of the squad in the business end of the season.
    — SI.com, 5 May 2018
  • The upper bunk is bare bones with no windows and a strap so that no one falls out when the train lurches.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • His denim-on-denim look the day before was just as bare bones, and just as good.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The rest of the game is obvious, because tennis is as bare bones as sports come.
    — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 26 June 2018
  • Urban Growler was at bare bones staffing, down from more than 50 workers to around 20, Loch said.
    — Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Students who want more than the bare bones are looking at their options.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 29 Apr. 2020
  • This bare bones edition is certainly fine and will get you through many a meal.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 28 June 2022
  • At $600-million, the complex is anything but bare bones.
    — James S. Russell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe the barest bones of such preparation are beginning to emerge.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Hardy found that these bare bones were enough to get all that familiar quantum stuff back again.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The task has not been easy from the start, as bare bones and outdated information leads to dead ends.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Leicester will be down to the bare bones in the centre of midfield, with Matty James sidelined for the rest of the season with an Achilles problem.
    — SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Suddenly, a position with scant depth was down to its bare bones.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • So what are like the bare bones of a traditional Hindu wedding?
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The Element, on the other hand, is the bed-in-box company’s most basic option, with just the bare bones of a great mattress.
    — Kami Phillips, CNN Underscored, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Auditors in many countries are already required to add flesh to the bare bones of the audit opinion.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • There are countless variations to be discovered among the bare bones of this kind of story.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The space has been stripped down to its bare bones: The main floor, a mezzanine, the vault room, the deck and the impressive front entrance from the building's original use as a bank.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • For those of you who have not read my work here, here are the bare bones of my position player evaluation method.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • With its chalky white walls and grey floors, a retail space located in a strip mall near downtown Birmingham looks like the bare bones of a dream.
    — al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • My parents’ wedding was very bare bones, so, to me, I was always deterred from having a big wedding.
    — Claire Stern, ELLE, 16 July 2023
  • Faux puts meat on those bare bones by escorting his readers to many of the epicenters of the crypto scam — Miami, the Bahamas, the Philippines and more.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023

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