Words similar to barely

Example sentences for: barely

How can you use “barely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"Mail has never been a contributing factor to a plane crash," says the service's aviation mail security representative, Bill Carlton, with barely a hint of disappointment.
Except that inflation is still nonexistent, corporate earnings are high, the Japanese economy is still barely limping along, and the trade deficit seems to have more to do with roaring consumer demand and foreign demand for U.S. assets than any fundamental weakness in the overall economy.
," then wanders off on an immensely long, barely responsive answer.
Maybe he does better in Spanish, but the man can barely speak English.
The same, however, cannot be said either of the recent and increasingly common af flu ence, barely, if at all, distinguishable from the similarly mis-stressed ef flu ents, or of defuse , when a failure to place nearly equal emphasis on both syllables leads to the word's being mistaken for the verb diffuse .