How to Use bare-bones in a Sentence

bare-bones

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Moab's functional inns and bare-bones campsites are fine for hard chargers who are just looking for a place to sleep between climbs or long days of mountain biking.
  — Scott Bay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
• That’s the secret code name for Zuckerberg’s bare-bones version of an imitation Twitter.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Performances were typically bare-bones, held in a church on the south side of Washington Square Park, and admission was free.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• The movie was initially earmarked for streaming, and looks the part with its bare-bones story, although for those who just want to see buckets of blood and chainsaws, that’s probably enough to get the job done.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Spirit is a low-cost airline and offers bare-bones tickets, charging for perks like baggage and seat selection.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 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
• Well, those days are just about gone, replaced by a series of micro-breweries with tasting rooms that take a bare bones approach to the food.
  — Dave Eckert, kansascity, 5 June 2018
• With only the bare bones guidelines for lenders available late on the eve of the program's launch, banks and lenders clearly scrambled to be open for business on April 3.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024