bare-bones

Example Sentences

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While Avast Secureline VPN provides the basics, its offering is pretty bare bones compared to other VPN services out there.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Down to the bare bones due to a host of injuries, Roma moved into third thanks to quickfire late goals from Manu Kone and Matias Soule which broke Sassuolo's brave resistance.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

A: The chair drafted a bare bones skeleton of a treaty.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 25, 2024

"I imagine we can get going within the next month or so with a bare bones team and set of machinery and tools," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik