BARE in a Sentence

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264 example sentences for BARE, such as:
1. Believe somebody on his bare word.
2. Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.
3. Modal verbs generally take the bare infinitive.
4. Don't walk on that broken glass with bare feet.
5. The newspaper had simply published the bare facts.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BARE
bare
 a.  completely unclothed
 a.  lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Now these and all other tokens of her presence had vanished and the room looked as bare and comfortless as when Zeena had shown her into it on the day of her arrival.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hall which, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The floors were glistening and bare except for a few bright rag rugs, and the white walls unornamented save for one corner which Melanie had fitted up as a shrine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  He swung onto Nellie and cantered off, his hat in his hand, his silver hair bare to the rain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Grandpa Merriwether rode in on a gun carriage, his bare feet tied in quilt scraps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  She paced the floor in her bare feet, her nightgown clinging to her legs and the more she walked the stronger became her foreboding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  His drawl was caressing and his hands slid up her bare arms, warm strong hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  Melanie's bare feet were almost in her face and, under the wagon seat, Prissy was curled up like a black cat with the small baby wedged in between her and Wade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  She could have ground her heel into the gaping wound which had been his nose and taken sweet pleasure in the feel of his warm blood on her bare feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  The last of the leaves fell from the bare trees and only the pines stood clothed, black and cold against pale skies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Alex, who still had boots, was walking and Tony, barefooted, was riding on the bare back of a mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  She went through the orchard under the bare boughs and the damp weeds beneath them wet her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  She rounded a thicket of pomegranate trees which were shaking bare limbs in the cold wind and saw him leaning on his axe, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  Suddenly Scarlett shivered and saw, as if coming back from a long journey, that it was winter and the fields were bare and harsh with stubble and she was very cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Don't walk on that broken glass with bare feet.
2  Believe somebody on his bare word.
3  The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
4  And you define yourself by the words you use, in my case words that seek to present bare facts.
5  And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
6  She stood by the oven, rubbing one bare foot against the other.
7  Modal verbs generally take the bare infinitive.
8  The investigation has laid bare their fraudulent scheme.
9  The newspaper had simply published the bare facts.
10  Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.
11  The stage was bare, with only the lighting to suggest a prison.
12  Silent in bare feet, he swiftly crossed the cold marble floor, sliding into bed just as the door creaked open.
13  The oak is a deciduous tree; in winter it looks quite bare.
14  The fierce sun will parch the bare earth next month.
15  Looking over the bare, unheated room, with its hard cot, he wondered what he was doing in such spartan quarters.