Definition: 1. The outer covering of a tree. 2. The short loud sound made by dogs and some other animals. 3. A short loud sound made by a gun or a voice.
Use 'bark' in a sentence:
1. The black dog barked at a stranger.
2. A small dog barked at a seagull he was chasing.
3. I just put the bark back in my pocket and kept mum.
4. She can be a bit tetchy but her bark is worse than her bite.
5. ‘ Woof! Woof! ’ he barked.
6. It takes the bark of three whole trees to make enough of the drug to treat a single patient.
7. Recoiling in pain, I'd scrape my back or arms on the scaly tree bark.
8. He barked questions at her.
9. 'Ha!' It was a cross between a laugh and a bark.
10. The dog growled/ barked at the stranger.
11. "We also built bog bridges, " Macie says. "You need to take the supportive logs underneath and remove their bark because the bark can rot quickly."
12. Birch bark is pliable and very easy to bend.
13. Then there was a woman's voice, rising shrilly above the barking.
14. A tree needs bark.
15. Now besides the bark, Native Americans also used the wood of the birch tree.
16. Their dogs bark loudly.
17. They are tall and white, the bark, I mean.
18. So the winter bark was used for larger utensils and containers.
19. In the year 105, he made it from tree bark, bamboo, cloth rags, and fishing nets.
20. Bark may be used as raw material for paper-making.
21. They will soil your house, destroy your belongings, bark excessively, fight other dogs and even bite you.
22. That's one of the great things about birch bark.
23. Paths of bark chippings will help to give the impression of a woodland walkway.
24. You're barking up the wrong tree if you're expecting us to lend you any money.
25. The girls barked with laughter.
26. He raced ahead up into the bush, barking and snarling.
27. The builder looked at me as though I was barking mad.
28. This tree is always recognizable by its extremely beautiful silvery bark.
29. The most important use of the bark, by far, was the canoe.
30. The bark was stretched over frames made from tree branches, stitched together and sealed with resin.
31. He made paper with bark, ropes, rags and so on.
32. The birch has smooth bark and slender branches.
33. Outside, a dog was barking.
34. Healthy trees are also better able to fend off bark beetle.
35. I set the log on the ground and shaved off the bark.
36. Across vast areas of western North America, increasingly mild winters are causing massive outbreaks of bark beetle.
37. The young trees were used as supports for lodgings, with the waterproof bark used as roofing.
38. He could hear her dog barking and whining in the background.
39. The leaves, bark and sap are also common ingredients of local herbal remedies.
40. The corridor echoed with the barking of a dozen dogs.
41. Mother took hold of the barking dogs by their collars.
42. The birch tree has white bark, and this tough protective outer layer of the tree, this white bark, is waterproof.
43. They would peel large sheets of bark from the tree to form lightweight yet sturdy canoes.
44. Beavers peel off the bark to eat and they also use the branches for building their shelters.
45. He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood.
46. Deer had stripped all the bark off the tree.
47. Deer had stripped the tree of its bark.
48. The dog suddenly started barking at us.
49. A cur barking at the sun cannot detract from its glory.
50. He could hear a dog barking.
51. I could hear a dog barking.
52. Don't let the dogs bark.
53. She barked out an order.
54. They could fold the bark into many shapes.
55. Scientists in Switzerland realised that most other researchers had been barking up the wrong tree.
