A vague rumbling in his stomach suggested hunger, so he scavenged the nearly bare cupboards.

None of the $1.4 billion settlement money will reach our bare cupboards.

"We're not down to the bare cupboard," Leyland said.

The room is poorly kept, with cracking plaster, a broken window and uneven floor, and a bare cupboard.

I wouldn't say there's a bare cupboard!

The energetic Mr. Roth, who started with a bare cupboard, is perceived to be "a breath of fresh air."

Result: a cupboard most often bare of the graham cracker, marshmallow and chocolate confection.

In bare cupboards and in cold trailers, their hardships are accumulating.

With the cupboard bare on domestic issues, Mr. Bush is forced to take the opposite tack.

Netty had to eat while she was here, and bare cupboards might have made her wonder.