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(plural) the most basic facts or elements
he told us only the bare bones of the story
How To Use bare bones In A Sentence
- The bare bones were always impressive: at the heart of the complex is a former manor house set in 160 acres of woodland. Times, Sunday Times
- The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
- The cockpit has been stripped to the bare bones and restoration will begin soon.
- The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
- In an English narrative, the action, the bare bones of the plot, are rendered with the perfective tenses, while the background is filled in with imperfective tenses. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- Finally, with nary an extra to be found, not even a trailer, this disc is the very definition of bare bones.
- The bare bones of a claustrophobic thriller are ground into dust by some leaden direction in this uninspiring attempt at mining Misery territory. Times, Sunday Times
- The strength of the book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
- Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
- There are not even the bare bones of a garden here — I've got nothing.