Example sentences for: bark

How can you use “bark” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This consists of a seductive array of close-up photos of dangling berries and mottled, peeling bark designed to cure whatever ails your garden.

  • But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).

  • Right now, something called the Dog Genome Project is trying to isolate the various genes for breed-specific behaviors, including the basenji's genetic reluctance to bark and the basset's genetic refusal to catch Frisbees.

  • Tung has vowed to crack down on property speculators , but many think his bark will be worse than his bite.

  • There was thus the Bark family of dog breeders, the Hack family of woodcutters, the Hoarse jockeys, and the knife-grinding Rasps .


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