Example sentences for: barely

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

  • The reform-heads run into bigger trouble on the other two issues: wealthy candidates who spend gargantuan sums of their own money and phony issue ads that are barely disguised campaign ads.

  • But for anyone but the most ardent Thompson-committee groupie, the piece is a massive, unenlightening info-dump, containing paragraph after paragraph of brain-bending detail that's barely placed within a conceptual framework.

  • Kusama's pasta-encrusted clothing may have a link (as curator Lynn Zelevansky suggests) with eating disorders, which were barely discussed at the time.

  • Berger wrote President Clinton that the State Department's warning seemed to barely register with the Taliban.

  • The man, Sam Cohen, worked at the store for 46 years, after barely escaping the Holocaust, which claimed most of his family.


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