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Example sentences for: bare-bones

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Assuming the bare-bones basic functions of government are to be maintained, where then will be the room for any border-control guards or anti-terrorism measures, or Head Start or education grants or peanut subsidies or national parks, or disaster relief--let alone the enhancements that Congress deemed so necessary this October?
There'd be a cheerful chef butchering a Cornish hen, Muppets singing songs about friendship, two professors and a moderator seated in a bare-bones studio discussing race relations, a helmeted fat lady singing, a Third Worlder criticizing the First World in a documentary, and the lions of the Serengeti stalking an impala herd.
For bare-bones gaming, this place will do the trick.
Crichton ( Jurassic Park ) follows his usual MO: Turn a scientific concept into a hi-tech thriller with loads of action and bare-bones characters.
The 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine (near Kraków) — where you first descend 378 steps, then traipse through long corridors and see chapels and figures (including the Seven Dwarves) entirely carved out of salt, and finally zoom up to ground level via a fast and slightly shaky bare-bones elevator — is sure to be cool for kids.