Example Sentences

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It's found on barkless dead wood or on wood where the bark has begun to peel away.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2015

Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked.

From Time Magazine Archive

I walked along the whole edge of the island until I found Daisy sitting on an uprooted barkless tree that had beached here as some flood receded.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green