Sentence examples for so bare that from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, we relocated the contents of our closets until they were so bare that they no longer served their purpose.

· With silly season looming, the pop-news cupboard is so bare that On the Record finds itself having to report that venerable dadrockers Ocean Colour Scene have released their ninth album, North Atlantic Drift, this week.

Aubrey saw the need for tactful omissions and the sewing-on of fig leaves while a subject was alive, but for posterity he wanted to set down the truth, "exposed so bare that the very pudenda are not covered".

He wanted to get at the truth: "the naked and plaine trueth, which is here exposed so bare that the very pudenda are not covered, and affords many passages that would raise a blush in a young virgin's cheeks".

If Lippi is correct, and Italy's cupboard is so bare that there are no younger men pushing through, then Italy must start the process of a new soccer kindergarten from which to begin the process of resuscitating a sport it has played so well in the past.

This was a game that brought together a number of strands, in effect ending Spurs' Wembley hoodoo, laying Liverpool's defensive limitations so bare that Jürgen Klopp claimed they would have been better off with him at centre-back and cementing Son Heung-min's status as a crowd favourite.

For one thing, it taught him the art of improvisation during the dark 1970's -- when the cupboards were so bare at the Transit Authority that he would go to hardware stores on Canal Street to buy switches with his own money to keep trains running.

The plot is so bare bones that Plummer's revenge tour of America and Canada slowly turns him into Goldilocks, searching for just the right elderly German man.

Some attempted to recreate rap videos (why?) while the others were so bare bones that we were all better off sitting under some fat guy's table at Philippe Chow with our mouths open to catch whatever fell out of his.

Before a retrospective of his work at the Design Museum in London, a Telegraph article noted that his home was so bare of ornament that, when he showed it to some Cistercian monks whose monastery he was about to design, they "worried his style might be too austere for them".

Argos however was left so bare of men that the slaves managed the state, filled the offices, and administered everything until the sons of those who were slain by Cleomenes grew up.