Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bare-throated.
Examples
-
Or perhaps males of the national bird of Paraguay, the bare-throated bellbird, feel attracted to other male birds?
Paraguay es en Sudamerica Richard Nokes 2006
-
Exclusive to the area are the bare-throated tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) and the continental subspecies of the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia).
-
It was closed; the heavy glass gave back only a dim reflection of herself, bare-armed, bare-throated, with spangles winking dully on her scarf.
Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
-
He had taken off his collar and tie, and rose, bare-throated, to go to bed.
Sons and Lovers 1913
-
There were other drawings, if not all by the same hand, at least by the same school; one, sketched in bold strokes, of a dinner party in a stately neo-classic dining-room, the table laden with flowers and silver, the bare-throated women with jewels.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
-
There were other drawings, if not all by the same hand, at least by the same school; one, sketched in bold strokes, of a dinner party in a stately neo-classic dining-room, the table laden with flowers and silver, the bare-throated women with jewels.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
-
He had taken off his collar and tie, and rose, bare-throated, to go to bed.
Sons and Lovers 1907
-
He liked to feel the wind tugging at sleeves and cap, and he leaned against it, bare-throated and bare-handed -- bareheaded, too, he would have been had not a carpenter, rods away on the cribbing, put out a hand to catch his cap as it tried to whirl past on a gust.
Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903
-
On the roads and mountains could be seen rows of bare-throated boys with heads uncovered, staff in hand, and Alpine knapsack on the back, occupying their leisure with pleasure excursions that were at the same time, perhaps, a foresighted study.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
-
It was the sight of the big, brown guns did it, and the cutlasses in their racks, and the clean - limbed, bare-throated Jackies, and the watch-officer stamping the deck just as though he were at sea, with his glass and side-arms.
Captain Macklin Richard Harding Davis 1890
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.