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
But there was no sound team, no makeup, no construction — just the bare bones of what it takes to make something.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
Other operators he's spoken to "really are on their bare bones," as some ran out of Guinness on Friday night, he says.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2024
“I mean, I know the bare bones of it from Zack, but I want to hear it from you.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
