Sentence examples for bark from inspiring English sources

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bark

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To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).

  • The neighbour's dog is always barking.

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The vessel met up with bark canoes under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and a traditional smoking ceremony was carried out.

Several private collectors, meanwhile, donated vast acquisitions of Aboriginal ethnographic material – secret and sacred objects, bark art, hunting weapons and Indigenous bones and body parts.

The dog that didn't bark was VAT.

Mel B has been drafted in, presumably to bark "That were pants" at anyone who dares to actually sing in her presence.

Charlie Methven, director of the PR firm Dragon Associates, who was managing director of New Century Media until 2011, said of Burnside: "His bark is considerably worse than his bite," adding that although "he might seem like the typical gruff Ulsterman, he is at heart a very kind man".

Maurizio points out strange lichens, trees and plants: Indian bread, an edible (but tasteless) fungus; winter's bark, a source of vitamin C; and at one point explains at length how an entire ecosystem has developed on a single fallen log.

A backdrop of trees and shrubs with autumn colour or ornamental bark ensures that the scene is constantly changing from one day to the next.

The whole thing was defused quite quickly (half an hour tops) and the farmer later testified: "Don was fine and did not bark during the incident".

For example, add cucumber if you like Tanqueray, cassia bark if you like Sipsmith or seville oranges if Beefeater is your tipple.

Once found they are trained to bark to indicate that they have located the suspect.

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The film essentially tells us how their marriage suffers until she, in a magisterial, bark-stripping tirade, finally reminds him of her indispensable role in his success: "I was once your boss!" The device that speeds along the estrangement of the partnership is the movie's weakest invention, a screenwriting project with another writer (Danny Huston), a fool and a hack in Hitch's eyes.

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