Synonyms for bare bones


Grammar : Noun


Définition of bare bones

  • noun basic elements
Example sentences :
  • I have been forced, so to speak, to look upon its bare bones.
  • Extract from : « Notes on My Books » by Joseph Conrad
  • If a look could have withered him Seth would have shriveled to bare bones.
  • Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum
  • He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.
  • Extract from : « The Wind in the Willows » by Kenneth Grahame
  • At last nothing is left of it but the bare bones to bleach in the sun.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery, April 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 4 » by Various
  • The rest of the bare bones of the story I have already told you.
  • Extract from : « Jaffery » by William J. Locke
  • Shout now and welcome, and it is bare bones will be left of you!
  • Extract from : « Three Wonder Plays » by Lady I. A. Gregory
  • It had been rather like an exchange of telegrams--reduced to the bare bones of necessary question and answer.
  • Extract from : « Jason » by Justus Miles Forman
  • I could see the bare bones of an auditorium, the deep foundations for the stage and so forth.
  • Extract from : « Adventures and Enthusiasms » by E. V. Lucas
  • That which is technical to the exclusion of other elements remains technique pure and simple, workmanship--the bare bones of art.
  • Extract from : « Pictures Every Child Should Know » by Dolores Bacon
  • There were fewer piles of loose stones, but more outcropping rocks, the bare bones of the earth.
  • Extract from : « The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol » by Lewis E. Theiss

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