How to Use bark in a Sentence

bark

1 of 2 verb
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  • And right then, South recalled the dog that didn’t bark.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Next to the fan—was that…? Name, a man in a white button-down shirt barked out.
    — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • As the saying goes, the dogs barked and the caravan moved on.
    — John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Simply the sound of a barking dog can cause a prowler to change his mind.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The dogs are barking and tugging so hard that the sled, though fixed to a post, bucks and wobbles.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • But sometimes nothing is the story, like the dog that does not bark.
    — Edward J. McCaffery, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The hogs continue to root around in the yard as dogs bark in the background along the quiet cul-de-sac.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Maybe just wake me when the AI dog collar starts barking on its own.
    — Condé Nast, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Trump barked at the judge in his fraud case, at a hearing in November.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The dogs are up top, just out of view but barking loudly and nonstop.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The dogs were then allowed to bark at the lion, a common hazing method.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Some dogs will cry for a few minutes while others may bark or howl for hours on end.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Video footage shows the woman screaming for help and the dog barking wildly.
    — Austindedios, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The camp meetings in the woods where young people would bark and howl and writhe on the ground and fall into trances that lasted for days.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • As they got dressed, the officers barked at them for taking too long.
    — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Scout headed to the door, barked a few times and sat there waiting to see what who was trying to enter.
    — John Carlisle, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • At each door, Viano clapped over the sounds of barking dogs to get the attention of residents.
    — David Feliba, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And then running in circles and barking, and then human picks me up, and here comes the big man with the big ribbon, again.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • The dog was under a birch tree, looking up and barking steadily.
    — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The man puts his hands up, then covers his face as the officer barks commands while an alarm sounds in the background, the video shows.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Among the sounds in Monster Wolf's repertoire are gunshots, howls, and barking dogs.
    — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The building started to rumble; her dog started to bark.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Mike Brosseau was called a ball with one out in the third, Jameson seemed to tense up on the mound, prompting Lovullo to start barking at Morales from the dugout.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • For example, there's a night scene when Arthur barks Lassie-like to stop Michael from walking over a sheer cliff just feet away.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • At times, Udu barked or screamed into the mic for emotional effect, the lyrics garbled in a burst of post-teenage angst.
    — Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
  • When outdoors, puppies will bark at all sorts of things: other dogs, strangers, kids, cats, birds, leaves.
    — Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Booker yapped something and Doncic barked back and then got nose-to-nose with Booker.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Other birds can mimic a phone ringing or a dog barking, and some curse like sailors.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • Viciousness is the attack dog that hasn’t eaten in a week, and is drooling and barking and snarling.
    — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2024
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bark

2 of 2 noun
  • As the stems age, the bark thickens and fades to gray or brown.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The growths on the base of the tree plus the bark is peeling off badly.
    — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The colors of the pedals are matched to the color of the tree’s bark or flowers.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 10 May 2023
  • Merlin’s bark is high-pitched and loud, like a smoke alarm.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Yams are a dry, starchy root vegetable with rough skin that looks a bit like the bark of a tree.
    — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • In early spring, tufts of pale leaves burst from gray bark.
    — Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Yams Yams are a dry, starchy root vegetable with rough skin that looks a bit like the bark of a tree.
    — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The game had more bark than bite, ending in a scoreless draw.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Grow blueberries in pine bark fines or add the fines to nonacid soils. 70.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Poke a finger about an inch down into the bark or moss.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
  • Tree trunks were snapped relatively close to the ground, and the bark was ripped from them.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But during droughts, the trees dry out too much for crews to peel off the bark without killing them.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Elephants like to push down trees and eat them—bark, branches, and all.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One of its newest items is the chunky bark, with milk or dark chocolate with peanuts and raisins.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The bark will appear more shredded when a deer is rubbing against the trunk.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The bark of these trees contains tannic acid, which helps their bark stay safe from flames.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • There was a fist-size clump of soapy bubbles on a tree’s bark, at about eye level.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Bradley got out of the ditch with help from those who responded to Ruby's barks.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The bear digs around a food storage area used by red squirrels and finds some white bark pine cone to chew on.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Most of the damage is minor but two trees were girdled, with bark shredded all the way around the trunk.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Cartier hoped the fish would make his fortune and needed the flowers, or at least the tree bark, to save his life.
    — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The impressive stump sculpture stands 9 feet tall and has a small owl carved into the bark.
    — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Claw marks score the aspens at heights above my head, tufts of fur from the enormous bears who left them snagged by the peeling bark.
    — Cassidy Randall, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023
  • What to order: The Volcano Dog has a big bark and bigger flavors.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 July 2023
  • Imagine finding an ant, in the case of the Pennsylvania one, and the ants are brown, the fungus is brown, and the tree bark is brown.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The crape myrtle bark scale has crept into the D.C. region in recent years.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Larvae feed beneath the bark and girdle branches and trunks of trees.
    — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Then a crew stripped the bark and branches, while roughly shaping the log into a long, straight timber.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Ponderosas can reach 120 feet in height and have bark that smells of vanilla and butterscotch.
    — The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In an abject effort to persuade Lee not to reveal this to her, Oh barks like a dog, licks Lee’s shoes, and cuts off his own tongue with scissors.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024

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