Example sentences for: barely

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

  • I, for one, can barely tell you which of the colors I dislike is mauve and which is fuchsia.

  • Hanks is a supremely effective actor, I admit, but there are times these days when I can barely stomach him.

  • Actually, expansion aroused Northern fears mainly because it promised to create more states hospitable to slavery, but in Buchanan's telling, the central issue of antebellum America garners barely a mention.

  • Maybe he does better in Spanish, but the man can barely speak English.

  • 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.


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