BARE in a Sentence

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She paced the floor in her bare feet, her nightgown clinging to her legs and the more she walked the stronger became her foreboding.

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 Meanings and Examples of BARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bare
 a.  lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  Current fashion decrees that evening gowns be decollete this season; bare shoulders are again the vogue.
17  The place was pitch black, our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons.
18  Apple announced a list of vulnerabilities that would command big bounties, including $25,000 for ways around Apple's digital compartments and into its customers' data, $50,000 for bugs that give hackers a way into iCloud data, and $200,000 to turn over critical vulnerabilities in Apple's firmware — the software that lies closest to the bare metal of the machine.
19  She was barely able to stammer out a description of her attacker.
20  A viral illness left her barely able to walk.
21  The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
22  The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.
23  They had barely time to catch the plane.
24  We barely had time to catch the train.
25  Evans could barely contain his delight: "I'm so proud of her," he said.
26  He could barely afford the railway fare.
27  He barely escaped being pawed by the dog.
28  Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents.
29  Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
30  At times, the heat was barely tolerable.