How To Use Bare In A Sentence

Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times

Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
The famous boxer killed a fierce wolf with his bare hands.
They had barely been fed and their heads were shaved. The Sun
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
Her bare feet created a rhythm of their own as she moved all over the floor, lunging and retracting, parrying invisible foes.
Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
Still, the crêpe was even oilier - thick, flabby and barely hot, with the flavour of an onion-soaked flannel. Times, Sunday Times
Spaghetti carbonara and giant, ricotta-stuffed ravioli in an earthy sauté of porcini mushrooms, barely touched with tomato, both did credit to the pasta roster.
And also barely functioning as an able-minded human being. IN ODDER NEWS: Kathy Griffin’s Emmy Speech, Uncensored | Best Week Ever
After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
In many cases, well-qualified songs from musicals, operettas, vaudeville, and revues, as well as variety shows, music hall, and cafe concert, were recruited for use in cabarets.
Since I haven't read anybody else saying it yet, I'll jump up and be the first: they should be fired, at a bare minimum.
Once the war began, uniformed Americans participated in an inter-service contest for buckjumping and bareback riding at Wirth's Circus, Melbourne, in early 1943.
They have innumerable beautiful, barefoot children, live in low-slung, thatched, whitewashed cottages, and their climate is often cool, damp and misty.
His voice sunk to a barely perceptible level.
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
When the tide goes out, vast stretches of sand are laid bare.
They're usually the ones who've been around for a while, and they usually manage with the barest minimum of speaker support.
a bare hillside. Naked can mean 'without a protective covering':a naked sword.
The wild subspecies that gave up their DNA for these tests still exist, though barely.
Leaders like that get only the bare minimum of effort and never rouse employees to cooperative activity.
Luckily, someone who wants to produce a bare-bones syndication feed does not need to work very hard.
In 1819 the tenant was a person named McKechnie, as to whom I have been unable to glean any information whatever beyond the bare fact that he was a pewholder in St. James's church. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
Find supermarket shopping almost impossible now, barely able to walk let alone push a trolley so did my first internet shop last night. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles
It has barely issued a reprimand or fine in years. Times, Sunday Times
Dogs came lunging forward with their fangs bared.
Inflation did eventually accelerate, and tight-money measures have barely begun to halt it.
Sheols of houris in chems upon divans, (revolted stellas vespertine vesamong them) at a bare (O!) mention of the scaly rybald exclaimed: Poisse! Finnegans Wake
And workers 'wages barely budged, meaning consumers will probably stay somewhat cautious in the months ahead. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus Poloni� latrones quidam Cosaci nuncupati, et alij facinorosi in partibus illis existentes, subditos C鎠aris potentissimi turbare et infestare non desierunt. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The streets and buildings display barely no signage. Times, Sunday Times
Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
As Meg brought Scott down to the car after the moving men had carried off all the stuff, Julia walked around in the empty and bare apartment.
We were in the backyard, in the big bare place Lincoln had worn in the grass.
Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves?
The men are dressed in shabby, quilted jackets; they are bareheaded and barefoot.
But it is a tricky lesson to teach when the banks and building societies are paying barely any interest to savers. Times, Sunday Times
Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
I was roped to Jim, but it was of no use; my feet were paralyzed and slipped on the bare rock, and he said it was useless to try to go that way, and we retraced our steps.
I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
Always try to plant bare-root stock as soon as you get home.
She could barely pay the rent off of the measly tips that the patrons were giving, and her wages were too low to provide her with any material comfort.
His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
These immortal ideas, things barely perceptible are the most precious things of life.
The trail becomes more precipitous as we plod steadily across a long ridge that is barely discernible from the fog folding around us. Times, Sunday Times
Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.
You can play this shot off any lie, even bare ground if your wedge has minimal bounce.
Pasture fields were soil tested each year, and inventories were completed in the spring and summer for forage species, weeds, and bare ground percentage.
Even as a child I had heard what a monadnock was - a huge lump of rock rising above rolling forests, a big hunk scraped bare but still left after the icecap had gone back.
I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
Rake over and re-seed bare patches on the lawn and sow new lawns by the end of September.
As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
I must have more than 'intimated' -- I must have spoken plainly out the truth, if I do myself the barest justice, and told you long ago that the admiration at your works went _away_, quite another way and afar from the love of you. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
After a particularly harrowing battle where the squad is able to overcome a Nazi ambush Zab is asked about what happened and can barely remember the event. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Her skirt was orange pleated, and barely covered the tops of her thighs.
Some parts of the country are almost bare of vegetation.
The meeting ended with the correct formalities, and barely concealed mutual mistrust. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd. Sirilyan Diary Entry
Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur.
The most barefaced collective silk stockings most strong on history is lured!
We ended up buying a GE front-loading pair, and they work like a charm (so quiet -- you can barely tell the washer is on!). Archive 2006-08-01
Seconds later he'd leapt into car with the kids, his bare torso on some one's lap on the front seat.
Can Bruce figure out a way to stop an unstoppable foe when he can barely get out of bed?
Then one morning the telephone wires are bare. Times, Sunday Times
Their demand for pensions deserves, said the national paper, ‘this week's, perhaps this year's, award for barefaced cheek’.
Closely related in origin to manganese nodules are the ferromanganese incrustations found on exposed rocks of the mid-ocean ridge, seamounts, and other places in the ocean where bare rock is exposed.
I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted.
Barefoot and wiry, his leathered face looks older than his 29 years.
The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
ducktail" was barely visible from the cabin, standing in sharp contrast to the GT3's rear spoiler that dominates - and obstructs - the rearward view. Autoblog
All she could hear was the barely audible swoosh of water going in and out the windows.
Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness.
No attempt to rebook, no real apology, barely more than a sentence really. The Sun
They barely gave me a nod when I poked my head up over the side of the truck.
I had barely come in when the telephone rang.
The place was Podunk City, a pimple of yawns on a bare white butt.
I barely restrained myself from hitting him.
In the early development of flamenco, the rhythm work was done in bare feet, so for me, the footwork is somewhat comparable to American Indian dance.
A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot.
She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
In summer they go barefoot, but seldom barelegged, as has been lately asserted by a traveller.
One can apparently hold that transworld identities may be ˜bare™ without holding that they are constituted by any properties at all, even unanalysable haecceities Transworld Identity
Sure it's what the Trib called the "bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics" but, hey, I guess that "kumbaya" attack goes by the wayside. Obama Responds To Bill's Reference To Jesse Jackson
The pain keeps hitting me in waves, ranging from barely tolerable to excruciating.
This left the US-funded base to be stripped bare by locals.
And, like any good schoolteacher, she modulates her voice to great effect; during moments of particular drama, she is known for speaking to juries in a barely audible whisper.
Barely 12 or 13 inmates had turned up during 1998-2003 for tailoring and stenography.
Indeed, it was Captain William Fall, out in the distance, just barely visible to the naked eye.
To do pioneering work, he or resolutely abdication, preparation is barehanded make the world.
They beat a Lions side which barely put up a fight; this is the weakest Australian side for many years; and a Springboks side still in transition came very close indeed to beating them in New Zealand and won the two games on aggregate.
Given what most people today think they know about Fascism, this bare recital of facts is a mystery story.
As she made her slow journey across the room, she heard the faint sound of bare flesh slapping against the stone tile.
He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree.
Women were banned from competing and spectating at the original Games, and shot put is barely 100 years old, so the direct linkage with the ancient past was tenuous.
In fact, this barely even felt like a movie about animals - it just happened to feature a horse prominently.
Most of these diarists ceased to write in 1945, but a few kept going through the threadbare peace.
These can usually be separated from the similarly sized dupondius by the laureate or bare head.
My sister and I could barely contain ourselves, we thought it was so funny and ingenious.
Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.
All the precious stones, except moonstone, opal and sphene, have at least the hardness of quartz, and can barely be scratched by metals, even by hard steel. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
Everything about this cold, vaulted hall seemed dark, with its acres of bare, black basalt. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
He killed the lion with his bare hands.
The idea came to him that he must do something more than usual to attract the attention of God, and he turned back the rug which was in front of his bed so that he could kneel on the bare boards; and then it struck him that his nightshirt was a softness that might displease his Maker, so he took it off and said his prayers naked. Of Human Bondage
The psychologist's room was bare and bleak with no windows.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
I squinted into the darkness, barely distinguishing anything.
It is now barely worthwhile for multinationals to fund research into tropical diseases. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the dark blue triangles on the pink background of the rosettes are barely perceptible in the old photograph and may be missed entirely if the viewer is not aware of the value shift.
I am a cabaret artist. The Sun
So would you dare to bare your body hair? Times, Sunday Times
Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. A Room with a View
Melvin can turn the depressed joint into a cabaret.
The Mercury said there were fears that the event, in which thousands of mostly adolescent girls parade bare-breasted wearing traditional beaded skirts, had become a target for pornography syndicates.
The collection of seven articles, six essays, and one interview use an assortment of scholarly approaches to explicate elements in Shonibare's works.
The frieze, where of old would prance an exuberant processional of gods, is, in this case, bare of decoration, but upon the epistyle is written in simple, stern letters the word "EUSTON. Men, Women, and Boats
Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
When I make dinner now and my children barely touch a bite, I see dollar bills going in the trash as I scrape the dinner dishes after the meal.
Where is the description of the stable, crude and bare, with cattle lowing and the baby Jesus lying on a bed of hay?
The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.
It's the reverse of birthdays, this laying out outside the meats and cheese, cruets of oil standing sentry at the table and each guest barely able to breathe in the funerary wreaths of citronella haze.
Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
I pulled over to the emergency lane, barely able to see the other cars on the road.
There was some barely audible whispering and my boss spoke again, only this time in a deeper voice.
You have two defensive tricks, but a bare hand offensively. Times, Sunday Times
The thresher is a square frame drawn over the grain -- which is spread upon the bare ground -- and is furnished on its under side with steel blades which not only shell the grain out of the ear, but also reduce the straw into chaff, which is desirable, as storing for feed more conveniently. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
Try to avoid walking around barefoot in communal areas. The Sun
I've even been damp dusting rather than just a quick polish but it's barely touching the surface.
When I reached the banks of the great estuary, which are here very bare and exposed, the waters had receded from the large and level space of sand, through which a stream, now feeble and fordable, found its way to the ocean. Redgauntlet
Obviously, she hadn't been watching the aristocrats around her with their barely formed simpers.
It also helped that the plate was huge - so big, in fact, that Vicky and I could barely finish half of it.
Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
Meanwhile, in another small saucepan, combine pearl onions and sugar with water to cover barely.
Going out with a thirtysomething when you are barely into your twenties is the coolest thing a man can do. Times, Sunday Times
The dagger slid smoothly down the front of his tunic, each button snapped off easily until only one separated his bare chest from the cold dagger.
To others this would look icy, but Aradia knew her best friend was barely controlling her temper.
For Cowen, the central economic reality of the past three decades is that median household incomes have barely budged, even after adjusting for inflation and other factors. Much of nation's recent growth may have been a mirage
Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
He did the bare minimum of work but still passed the exam.
a bare blade
European Powers is exhausted on Poland, and that neither pity nor shame will induce them to break a thankless neutrality, here; but in the face of all barely probable contingencies, I doubt no more of the ultimate result, than I doubt of the ultimate performance of the justice of God. Border and Bastille
The original interior has been stripped back to its bare shell and the exposed structure sandblasted.
The rain was so heavy during the ammunition drop that the aircraft hovering on top of the trees could barely be seen from the ground.
The return of the bare upper midriff, perhaps. Times, Sunday Times
Some, such as the bare midriff, come from the catwalk. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe you suffer from insomnia and barely sleep a wink every night.
When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag. Singletrack World
Male prostitution became better organized and there were tetki cabarets, restaurants, and bars as well as bathhouses catering to tetki.
There is barely anything more soul-destroying than a no-frills flight. Times, Sunday Times
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
I can't bare it anymore.
The bare concrete floor was cold on my feet.
In ancient times this was done by carrying the body to a high hilltop, leaving it bare for nature's scavengers to feed on.
We don't know each other that well. I certainly wouldn't bare my soul to her.
He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
The bare fact is that the clerk did not look for the purse.
Through the controlled burn, native seeds will have the chance to meet a bare ground that is no longer covered with species such as fescue and lespedeza, and dense thatch. TradingMarkets
On face, arms, body, brow, wherever dark hair needs paling Jolen makes it barely visible.
On another a man in airmans costume is fighting barehanded against a rat somewhat larger than a donkey. Boys' Weeklies
It wasn't that it grossed him out terribly, but he had heard so many mistletoe comments over the past week that he could barely contain himself.
He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
This corrupt and bureaucratized organization, which by its own account formally represents barely 12 percent of Venezuelan workers, is among the closest allies of the US AFL-CIO.
Also called bird's-eye, it has naturalized and often grows in grassy or bare areas.
They crumbled to our mighty power with our losses barely reaching through the double digits.
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
About their bared legs the shallow water plashed in palest blues and greens over the gold of sand, and the sky above them was blue almost to whiteness, with a scatter of whiter clouds diaphanous as feathers. His Disposition
Luke slides his offset spatula under each one and then, as he goes to retract it, adds the little flourish, the barely perceptible twist of the wrist, that makes his work look simultaneously more mechanical and more balletic. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Her throat was bare and a slight ruffle of white fabric edged the neckline where the edge of her chemise peeked out.
This was done by making some dummy rounds with the bullet seated way out and then gradually increasing the depth until the gun would just barely close.
Under the pale blue sky the trees seemed visibly to burgeon: yesterday's bare branches swelled into bud and would be in leaf by tomorrow. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
He is barely recognisable among the grime, dressed in filthy rags and as anaemic and leaden as his surroundings.
My nerves are almost completely balanced by the relief I'm feeling at soon being free of her, but as it is I'm jittering and barely worth talking to.
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But the bare-knuckle fight I attended was very impressive. Naomi Campbell Interviews Vladimir Putin (PHOTO)
We barely arrived than it was time to leave.
My Mum's bare happy today.
They had barely begun before the court adjourned to a nearby carpet for sunset prayers. Times, Sunday Times
Most of those that remain survive on barely a bowl of sadza - mealie-meal porridge - a day. Times, Sunday Times
The room was stripped bare but there was no doubt that it was at one time a child's room.

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