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Barely in sentence

1657 examples of Barely in a sentence

With such a busy schedule, the queen barely has time to feed herself.
But as we look, what's out there, we've barely scratched the surface on what is available on this planet.
I could barely breathe.
Barely pausing to say hello, he offers him hematite, dried seaweed, and empty shells to grind up for lime and chew with coca leaves.
The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old.
The couple are barely 18 years old.
Here he is walking down the aisle, but he can barely walk now, so it's impaired.
For the remembering self, a two-week vacation is barely better than the one-week vacation because there are no new memories added.
We barely break even.
You can barely stand outside the tent.
But barely six months into my new job, I met a woman who forced me to challenge all my assumptions.
It is barely tethered to any sort of physical reality in our minds.
When they work, they can make history, but after a while you can barely hear them.
People working in these canneries could barely stay there all day because of the smell, but you know what they came out saying?
And then you have poor old taste, which is like barely the throughput of a pocket calculator.
Today, barely 15 percent of registered architects in the United States are women.
Wave after wave, there is barely time to breathe.
And when I was first going up there, I barely knew the name of this country 10 years ago, and people would ask me, "Why are you going to this place called Kiribati?"
Kathy knew he was going to propose, and she could barely contain her excitement.
He barely functioned at work for many, many months, and he almost lost his job as a result.
Wooden performances by Lansing and Lee Meriwether barely rate as one-dimensional, though Patty Duke (playing a cute brat pre-"Miracle Worker") gets a colorful, memorable exit.
Upon his release, after his somewhat distraught dancer/girlfriend barely flinches (other than dropping a glass) after wondering which she missed more: him or the cigarettes she originally sent him for upon abduction.
an excruciatingly sluggish script, an excessive amount of stock footage from the first two flicks, a meandering narrative, a crippling lack of action and momentum, largely dreary going through the motions (non)acting from an understandably disinterested cast, and a poorly staged climactic battle between the mummy and the robot (the movie finally bursts to sidesplitting stupid life with said big bash, but alas it barely even lasts two lousy minutes and thus proves to be much too little far too late to alleviate the severity of the general overwhelming boredom), this numbingly dry, drippy, and draggy snorefest rates as a complete washout.
They were barely even aware of the Morlocks.
Characters are barely sketched, which could be OK, but they're completely uninteresting.
I can barely find the words to describe how much this piece of trash offended me.
This is a very dull film with poorly developed characters, subplots that go nowhere, and barely tolerable acting.
The topic has become so politically charged that a lot of viewers not only are not going to be entertained by movies of this sort, but will respond with barely concealed rage.
One minute Dick is seen as a cocky office pro, obsessed with possessions, the next minute he's a bumbling mess who can barely string two words together, and ultimately he becomes a petty thief who is able, quite happily, to put a gun to another man's head.
It's often hard to separate the girl's dream sequences from what is "really" happening, and so many holes are left in the story that you can barely figure out what is going on.
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