Example sentences for: barely

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

  • These numbers reflect consensus trends--foreign films are barely alive, while independent ones are flourishing.

  • The last item in this week's "Weekend Cocktail Chatter" is a perhaps cruel joke (or attempt at a joke) at the expense of the former CEO of barnesandnoble.com, who announced his unexpected resignation and saw his company's stock price barely move.

  • The horrors of the London blitz belonged to another planet: things that were read about in newspapers but which were barely comprehended by the majority in this tranquil little backwater.

  • Levinson might be so assimilated by now that he barely remembers what would impel someone to filter the Jewishness out of his or her autobiographical alter egos.

  • Engineering plant is operating well; temperature between the main diesel engines--Jake and Elwood--is 98 degrees; in the high southern latitudes the temperature was barely 80 degrees.


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