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How to use bare in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Bare means minimal; that is or are just sufficient. Example: “The cupboard was bare.”

Examples of bare by meaning

adjectiveMinimal; that is or are just sufficient.

  • a bare majority

adjectiveNaked, uncovered.

  • "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said.1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 46

adjectiveHaving no supplies.

  • a room bare of furniture
  • The cupboard was bare.
  • Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012

adjectiveHaving no decoration.

  • The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?

adjectiveHaving had what usually covers (something) removed.

  • The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.

adjectiveA lot or lots of.

  • It's taking bare time.
  • The phone would answer, we'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd have bare dough, we'd have bare money in our pocket.2005 July 13, Ryan, quotee, “‘We like the easy money. We like the lifestyle’”, in The Guardian
  • Man must have bare peas saved up.2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)

adjectiveMere; without embellishment.

  • bare essentials; bare necessities

adjectiveNot insured.

  • Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time.1987 December 1, ABA Journal, page 86
  • That a firm chooses to go bare has no effect on whether it gets sued or not.1994, David S. Haviland, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice, page 310

More sentences with bare

  • Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.From the entry lappet
  • The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.From the entry sod
  • He had only been taught the bare bones of the system, but carried on regardless.From the entry bare bones
  • They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.From the entry strip
  • Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.From the entry anarthrous
  • This man deliberately brushed my bare leg on the train: it really skeezed me out!From the entry skeeze out
  • Bare feet are banned in this establishment.From the entry ban
  • The formulation with the bare infinitive was somewhat less common.From the entry formulation
  • The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body.From the entry tattooed
  • The actress bared her soul in the candid interview.From the entry bare one's soul
  • In "on sale", "sale" is a bare noun.From the entry bare noun
  • Man, that video is bare jokes!From the entry jokes
  • Distracted by the way that the sudden gust of wind exposed the girl's bare thighs, he tripped on the uneven sidewalk and faceplanted straight into her soft cantaloupes.From the entry cantaloupe
  • This would pull the carriages back almost to the bare bones.2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27. From the entry bare bones
  • With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162. From the entry trebly
  • She was so alive that night, opaline points in her eyes, mouth parted to bare her teeth.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 134. From the entry opaline
  • The port of Harwich is where England bares her rump to the continent.2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books. From the entry Harwich
  • Xerarch succession if started on bare rock, pioneer species is lichens.2021 July 26, Janardhanan.T, Sanjay Sharma, The Big Book Of Biology For NEET Volume 2, Arihant Publications India limited, →ISBN, page 532. From the entry xerarch
  • All I remember about it is that we limboed on bare concrete.2020 January 28, Giselle Renarde, “Limbo Rock (Chubby Checker)”, in Play It on My Radio: A Diary in Music, [Los Gatos, Calif.]…. From the entry limbo
  • Could you imagine stepping on this with your bare foot?" Taylor said.2018 January 4, Melissa Hipolit, “HUD: Creighton Court residents without heat being relocated”, in CBS 6 TV. From the entry brick
  • Her dress was ruched around her waist, and her breasts were bared.2017, Laura Trentham, An Indecent Invitation: Spies and Lovers Book 1, Laura Huskins, →ISBN. From the entry ruche
  • Bare land with its fertile soil at the bottom of the ocean.2017, Gaston Vilaire, The Eve of Paramour, →ISBN. From the entry unexist
  • A grubby, shirtless guy in sweatpants and bare feet rushed out of the building.2015, Janey Mack, Time’s Up, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry Nike
  • There's as dyky as Sappho herself and bare to the bottom as a newborn.2015, Larry Hatch, Hoppers. From the entry dyky
  • Even her legs, bare and mottled beneath her bumphled skirts, have a healthy growth about them.2015, Karen Campbell, Rise. From the entry bumphle
  • But while four of her fingers are bare of color, her ring finger nails are painted purple.2015 September 1, Nicole Leonard, “Here, there and everywhere: Miss America Kira Kazantsev reflects on ‘exhausting,’ ‘amazing’ year”, in…. From the entry ring finger nail
  • Bare metal servers provide a higher level of freedom for the businesses in choosing their virtual servers.2014, S. Srinivasan, Cloud Computing Basics, Springer, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry bare metal

Meaning of bare

  1. adjective Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  2. adjective Naked, uncovered.
  3. adjective Having no supplies.

Full definition of bare

Questions about bare in a sentence

How do you use bare in a sentence?
Bare is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “The cupboard was bare.”
What is a short sentence with bare?
“a bare majority”
What does bare mean?
Bare means minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bare (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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