BARK in a Sentence
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131 example sentences for BARK, such as:
1. He peeled the bark off that tree.
2. You can't judge a tree by its bark.
3. Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
4. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
5. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
2. You can't judge a tree by its bark.
3. Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
4. You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
5. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BARK
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bark
v. speak in an unfriendly tone
v. tan (a skin) with bark tannins
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1 With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.
2 She took Mammy's word that the little boy had worms and dosed him with the mixture of dried herbs and bark which Ellen always used to worm the pickaninnies.
3 He fumbled in his back pants pocket and brought out the wallet of calico, stiffened with bark, which Carreen had made him.
4 The willows about a farmhouse were agitated by the rising wind, and the patches of bare wood where the bark had peeled away were white as the flesh of a leper.
5 The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
6 Now, mustering the spare poles from below, and selecting one of hickory, with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted the end to the socket of the iron.
7 Some of the cottonwoods had already turned, and the yellow leaves and shining white bark made them look like the gold and silver trees in fairy tales.
8 The bark of the oaks turned red as copper.
9 'I love them as if they were people,' she said, rubbing her hand over the bark.
10 No, no," returned the scout, in decided disapprobation of this opinion, "I rubbed the bark off a limb, perhaps, but the creature leaped the longer for it.
11 The Indians warily retraced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
12 The bullets pattered along the lake, and one even pierced the bark of their little vessel.
13 'Tis a canoe of good birchen bark, and paddled by fierce and crafty Mingoes.
14 The young men whose duty it was to guard the prisoner instantly passed their ligaments of bark across his arms, and led him from the lodge, amid a profound and ominous silence.
15 He would have spoken, but the Indian at that moment shoved aside a door of bark, and entered a cavern in the bosom of the mountain.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
2 Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
3 All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
4 The dog laid back his ears and began to bark.
5 He peeled the bark off that tree.
6 You can't judge a tree by its bark.
7 Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
8 Black too is a color, and the deep ridges of persimmon tree bark are an almost-black striated with dark gray.
9 The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
10 We found that birch bark could serve as paper.
11 She set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
12 He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
13 The fires have taken hold because of drought and an infestation of bark beetle, which has left millions of dead trees.
14 There are some neighbor dogs I would like to use it on, just to train them not to bark and howl, especially when they wake me up at night.
15 This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.